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External drive, removed from enclosure, still recognized as external?

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The111   10-15-2008 at 10:32:26 PM

About 4 months ago I purchased a "Western Digital Elements 500GB" external HDD. For various reasons, I decided to void my warranty (by breaking the seal on the enclosure) and remove the drive (SATA) and install it to my mobo internally. It works fine, but it is recognized by device manager as "External Disk 0 ATA Device." Not too surprising, but here is the really weird part. BEFORE I hooked it up via SATA, while it was still in the enclosure hooked up via USB, it was recognized as "WDC WD5000AAKS-..."

So the drive was recognized for what it is (Western Digital Caviar 500GB) while in the enclosure, but now that it is mounted by itself internally, it's recognized as a generic external device?

Any ideas about this one? Thanks!

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one-shot   10-15-2008 at 10:41:27 PM
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It is an external hard drive. The drive doesn't know the difference whether it's in or out of the case. If it did know I would be scared...very scared.

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The111   10-15-2008 at 10:57:39 PM
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Then why was it recognized as "WDC WD5000AAKS" when inside the external enclosure?


Message edited by The111 on 10-15-2008 at 11:32:14 PM
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