I pulled a seagate barracuda 7200.8 250 gbytes out of an HP desktop bought around 2004 or 2005. I bought a sabrent IDE/SATA device, connected it (everything lights up and you can hear the dard drive motor or power doing something) but I cannot find it on the laptop. Not in devices or disk mgr or anywhere.
cannot see external hard drive when plugged into laptop
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Boogieman_WD
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- Jul 31, 2014
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Hey there, taya63.
I'd suggest that you check if the SATA to USB adapter has any additional specific driver you need to install. Other than that, go ahead and try it out with a different computer. It would be even better if you could try the adapter with a different drive as well if possible. Unfortunately there's no other way to know what might be wrong unless you try out different options, so I'd recommend that you try that drive with a different computer by connecting it internally via a standard SATA connection and test it, to see if there's anything out of the ordinary.
Hope that helps. Please let me know how it goes.
Boogieman_WD
I'd suggest that you check if the SATA to USB adapter has any additional specific driver you need to install. Other than that, go ahead and try it out with a different computer. It would be even better if you could try the adapter with a different drive as well if possible. Unfortunately there's no other way to know what might be wrong unless you try out different options, so I'd recommend that you try that drive with a different computer by connecting it internally via a standard SATA connection and test it, to see if there's anything out of the ordinary.
Hope that helps. Please let me know how it goes.
Boogieman_WD
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