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help configuring SATA USB hard drive
My 2 year old toshiba laptop died and I removed the HD and got a USB encolsure for it and have tried to connect it to my new laptop. VIsta recognizes it as a USB mass storage device, but it won't assign it a drive letter or appear in the computer panel. What gives?? -- CSreality |
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help configuring SATA USB hard drive
"CSreality" wrote in message
... My 2 year old toshiba laptop died and I removed the HD and got a USB encolsure for it and have tried to connect it to my new laptop. VIsta recognizes it as a USB mass storage device, but it won't assign it a drive letter or appear in the computer panel. What gives?? -- CSreality Do you have instructions with it? Any mention of initializing, partitioning and formatting? -- Mike Hall - MVP How to construct a good post.. http://dts-l.com/goodpost.htm How to use the Microsoft Product Support Newsgroups.. http://support.microsoft.com/default...help&style=toc Mike's Window - My Blog.. http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx |
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help configuring SATA USB hard drive
I don't have anything from toshiba anymore and the instructions that came with the USB enclosure are only a 3 step outline in poor english that ends with plug the USB cable into your computer. It came with a driver disk for windows 98, but I bought it from Fry's and it has a Vista compatible sticker on it. What would be typical initialization instructions? I don't want to format the drive because I have a lot of data I want to move off of it onto my new machine. -- CSreality |
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help configuring SATA USB hard drive
Hey CSreality, I don't really understand why you do not just get a new HD for the lappy?? if that is all that is broken. An external drive is *_not_* an ideal solution and I suspect that the drive that you are planning to use does not have an adequate cooler which would mean it would be working at very *_high_temperatures_* which would shorten its life drasticaly! -- pooch |
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help configuring SATA USB hard drive
pooch;870723 Wrote: Hey CSreality, I don't really understand why you do not just get a new HD for the lappy?? if that is all that is broken. An external drive is *_not_* an ideal solution and I suspect that the drive that you are planning to use does not have an adequate cooler which would mean it would be working at very *_high_temperatures_* which would shorten its life drasticaly! Forget what I've written !! should learn to read first -- pooch |
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help configuring SATA USB hard drive
Attempt two. Are you sure that this drive is ok? when you say your old lappy died was this maybe the problem!! Have you tried to error check the disk when it is attatched to the new lappy?? it could be possible that you can still get something from it -- pooch |
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help configuring SATA USB hard drive
It was the DC connector pin on the mother board that stopped working. I had enough battery life left to know that the HD still works. I need to get my data off of it and don't want to pay a recovery service or anything... -- CSreality |
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help configuring SATA USB hard drive
Check in disk manager, and see if the computer sees the drive. If it does,
you can right click on it and then assign a drive letter. "Computer" will not see it till it has one. Did you leave the original operating system and data on the disk. If not, you can format it. Disks in enclosures are usually used intermittently, and so heat is not much of a problem. But, if the enclosure does not have an external power supply, it may be demanding too much from your usb ports. Try not to plug it into front ports. Disks and scanners are pretty sensitive to location, and front ports are often split off a single usb port. Good for flash drives and such, but not disks and scanners. Of course there are exceptions, but check it all out. Good luck. "CSreality" wrote in message ... My 2 year old toshiba laptop died and I removed the HD and got a USB encolsure for it and have tried to connect it to my new laptop. VIsta recognizes it as a USB mass storage device, but it won't assign it a drive letter or appear in the computer panel. What gives?? -- CSreality |