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Laptop internal dvd drive and an enclosure

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October 18, 2013 12:28:41 AM

This is my first time posting on Tom's Hardware, found many solutions using this forum! I hope I can find a solution to this problem:

I recently bought a SSD for my laptop to replace the standard DVD drive. I bought a caddy so that the SSD will fit in the DVD drive slot. All works well with the SSD and the laptop.

My problem comes with the DVD drive. I have also bought an enclosure for it (2.5 inch) off eBay. Its one of those from China. It says it's a plug and play device but when I plug it in it says "Windows does not recognise the USB device connected" or something to that effect. They did also supply a "driver CD". I managed to get the contents of the CD onto my laptop and looked for any sign of a driver, nothing. I then went to device manager, found the drive (it shows up as an unknown device) and updated the drivers and pointed it to the folder with the contents of the CD. Still nothing. I am currently on Windows 8.1, Dell XPS L502X.

Does anyone know what I can do next? I would really still like to make use of this drive seeing that I might need it one day for reading discs on my laptop.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

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October 18, 2013 2:00:46 AM

Try to connect the enclosure without the cddrive first. The laptop may recognize the controller chip that way. And try a different usb port as well.
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