Laptop HDD not recognized by PC when connected via IDE to USB adapter

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Vilas Winstein

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I recently bought this IDE to USB adapter on amazon, hoping to connect my old laptop IDE hard drive to my desktop PC. I plugged the hard drive into the adapter and then plugged the adapter into the computer. The hard drive started spinning up, but it never popped up in "My Computer" or in the disk manager...

I tried hooking the hard drive back up to the laptop, and it still worked perfectly, booting up into windows xp and everything. I don't think it's a faulty cable as the drive most definitely starts spinning when I plug it into the computer...

Anyone have any guidance?
 
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Bean007

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The adapter could be junk. The USB port you are plugin into, is it USB 2.0 or 3.0?
 
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alz_solstice

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Uhmm. Does that USB converter has Power Connector on it? I think the HDD still requires a power to supply. Check the back of the HDD, there are two ports, one for the HDD Cable and one for the PSU connector. You might need to hook a PSU connector on the HDD.
 
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I would think he knows to connect the power cable to the HDD. But then again.
 
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alz_solstice

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"I plugged the hard drive into the adapter and then plugged the adapter into the computer."

He never said he did.

Much better to give us the MODEL of the Hard Drive or at least a picture of the back panel of your Hard Drive.
 
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Power certainly is needed. I've seen that unit offered for sale including a power adapter. In fact, one of the photos on the Amazon page shows a power connector plugged into the back of an IDE drive. Did your unit come with this power adapter?

Second point: almost all such adapter require that you set the jumpers on the back edge of your IDE drive to make it a port MASTER. For that, follow the diagram on the HDD itself. Did you set it that way?
 
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