- Jul 31, 2006
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Sorry, I havent looked this up else on the forums yet, however, i looked on several other forums, checked up their answers and none of them worked so I decided to go ahead and just post.
I got a HDD enclosure after my cpu died. There were 2 hard drives on that computer, both are IDE. The newer on is 120 GB and the newer one, is a Maxtor. It works just fine when I put it in the enclosure. When I try putting the old one in (some kind of IBM Desktar hd, 61.4 GB capacity), nothing works. There is a beep to show that the usb is recognized or whatever, but most of the time nothing shows up. I went to device manager and asked it to look for new devices, nothing happened.
The one error I did get said this device may not work properly, however I think it was from when the data cable was not inserted properly, however, I have taken the HDD enclosure apart about 4 times and the last time i used more or less all the strength I had to make sure the cables were in right. So far i have not gotten that message again. The usb little thing at the bottom right doesnt come up. The enclosure i am using is a Xion 3.5" enclosure that supports all the operating systems that the HD has gone through and supports all the usb stuff as well. It came with a disc for any software needs for the usb connection however when i access that, it says Copy File Error, The USB Storage Device has been fully installed already, so there is no software problems.
So any ideas on what the problem is? I am not too smart on this stuff so any and all help would be nice.
I got a HDD enclosure after my cpu died. There were 2 hard drives on that computer, both are IDE. The newer on is 120 GB and the newer one, is a Maxtor. It works just fine when I put it in the enclosure. When I try putting the old one in (some kind of IBM Desktar hd, 61.4 GB capacity), nothing works. There is a beep to show that the usb is recognized or whatever, but most of the time nothing shows up. I went to device manager and asked it to look for new devices, nothing happened.
The one error I did get said this device may not work properly, however I think it was from when the data cable was not inserted properly, however, I have taken the HDD enclosure apart about 4 times and the last time i used more or less all the strength I had to make sure the cables were in right. So far i have not gotten that message again. The usb little thing at the bottom right doesnt come up. The enclosure i am using is a Xion 3.5" enclosure that supports all the operating systems that the HD has gone through and supports all the usb stuff as well. It came with a disc for any software needs for the usb connection however when i access that, it says Copy File Error, The USB Storage Device has been fully installed already, so there is no software problems.
So any ideas on what the problem is? I am not too smart on this stuff so any and all help would be nice.
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