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external HD enclosure-fitted Seagate 160gb
taken from computer with failed motherboard- will not work in Vista home
premium. It is recognised in drive list but will not open. Enclosure supplier stated that Vista will not recognise as it was FAT 32. Any ideas on this problem? |
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external HD enclosure-fitted Seagate 160gb
Hi,
Vista has no problems with reading/writing to a FAT32 drive. Run disk manager (diskmgmt.msc) and see if the drive is detected and how it is seen. You might try the function to import a foreign disk. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "elltell" wrote in message ... taken from computer with failed motherboard- will not work in Vista home premium. It is recognised in drive list but will not open. Enclosure supplier stated that Vista will not recognise as it was FAT 32. Any ideas on this problem? |
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external HD enclosure-fitted Seagate 160gb
elltell wrote:
taken from computer with failed motherboard- will not work in Vista home premium. It is recognised in drive list but will not open. Enclosure supplier stated that Vista will not recognise as it was FAT 32. Any ideas on this problem? What do you hope to achieve by using this drive? Right now, if the drive's hardware is sound, then you don't have a problem. If your end purpose is to utilize the drive for extra storage space, and you don't need any of the information on it, just reformat the drive. If you wish to retrieve information off the drive then you will need appropriate software to read the drive, or install it in another computer or use one of the Linux Live CD distributions. |
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external HD enclosure-fitted Seagate 160gb
Rick Rogers wrote:
Hi, Vista has no problems with reading/writing to a FAT32 drive. Run disk manager (diskmgmt.msc) and see if the drive is detected and how it is seen. You might try the function to import a foreign disk. Ahhh...thanks for posting this fact, Rick....I thought it was strange that Vista couldn't read FAT32 (as per the OP post). Cheers! :-) |
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external HD enclosure-fitted Seagate 160gb
-- retiree "elltell" wrote: taken from computer with failed motherboard- will not work in Vista home premium. It is recognised in drive list but will not open. Enclosure supplier stated that Vista will not recognise as it was FAT 32. Any ideas on this problem? |
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external HD enclosure-fitted Seagate 160gb
Thankyou for your reply, but one cannot format a drive unless you can enter
the format instruction, and if you are'nt able to enter the drive then it will not be able to be formatted. Also I stated the drive showed up on connecting to my pc but it does not show now when connected and switched on. In answer to your other question regarding its purpose which would be to use this as an external back up. I neglected to say that when the motherboard packed up on the previous computer [ e-machine ] I was told that I would lose all information on the drive. I then bought a enclosure and find that I still can't access the drive. I have the rescue discs that contain the drive info and tried them in my ADVENT PC but this did not help. Do you think that using another pc with a different platform would help? man" wrote: elltell wrote: taken from computer with failed motherboard- will not work in Vista home premium. It is recognised in drive list but will not open. Enclosure supplier stated that Vista will not recognise as it was FAT 32. Any ideas on this problem? What do you hope to achieve by using this drive? Right now, if the drive's hardware is sound, then you don't have a problem. If your end purpose is to utilize the drive for extra storage space, and you don't need any of the information on it, just reformat the drive. If you wish to retrieve information off the drive then you will need appropriate software to read the drive, or install it in another computer or use one of the Linux Live CD distributions. |
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external HD enclosure-fitted Seagate 160gb
If you want to recover some valuable data from the drive you can
probably do so using a Linux Live CD which can be used by itself without affecting you present setup. This will involve downloading a distribution and burning it to a CD. On the other hand you could take the drive to a computer store (Probably not Best Buy but a smaller independent one) and ask their advice. Aside from the cost of a CD the first solution is free, the second probably won't be. As to why the drive is not showing up, well, there might be justification for a visit to a store, they most likely will have diagnostic experience and tools and can probably suggest the best way to proceed. If you want to try yourself you can try downloading a CD image from here... http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?o...iles&Itemid=28 Burn the image to CD, boot from the CD and you should have an operational system running from CD without installing anything. Don;t select any options to "Install", just see if you can locate the drive. For Ubuntu click "Computer". elltell wrote: Thankyou for your reply, but one cannot format a drive unless you can enter the format instruction, and if you are'nt able to enter the drive then it will not be able to be formatted. Also I stated the drive showed up on connecting to my pc but it does not show now when connected and switched on. In answer to your other question regarding its purpose which would be to use this as an external back up. I neglected to say that when the motherboard packed up on the previous computer [ e-machine ] I was told that I would lose all information on the drive. I then bought a enclosure and find that I still can't access the drive. I have the rescue discs that contain the drive info and tried them in my ADVENT PC but this did not help. Do you think that using another pc with a different platform would help? man" wrote: elltell wrote: taken from computer with failed motherboard- will not work in Vista home premium. It is recognised in drive list but will not open. Enclosure supplier stated that Vista will not recognise as it was FAT 32. Any ideas on this problem? What do you hope to achieve by using this drive? Right now, if the drive's hardware is sound, then you don't have a problem. If your end purpose is to utilize the drive for extra storage space, and you don't need any of the information on it, just reformat the drive. If you wish to retrieve information off the drive then you will need appropriate software to read the drive, or install it in another computer or use one of the Linux Live CD distributions. |
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external HD enclosure-fitted Seagate 160gb
Does it show up in Disk Management, when switched on, if it does then it can be formatted. If it doesn't show up, I suspect its kaput. -- wysiwyg |