External Hard Drive Not Showing Up

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Help? I have an external hard drive enclosure, which I can put a 3 Gb hard
drive into and it works perfectly. I went out and bought a 120 Gb WD Caviar
Se Drive to replace the 3Gb Hard Drive. Windows XP is recognizing it but it
is not assigning it a drive letter. Can anyone help?

 

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Have you formatted the drive yet?

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Walter Clayton
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.


"Matthew" <Matthew @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4C2EAF63-A41B-435F-8624-4F6AB5F0AA95@microsoft.com...
> Help? I have an external hard drive enclosure, which I can put a 3 Gb hard
> drive into and it works perfectly. I went out and bought a 120 Gb WD
> Caviar
> Se Drive to replace the 3Gb Hard Drive. Windows XP is recognizing it but
> it
> is not assigning it a drive letter. Can anyone help?

 

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I got it finally to show up as a drive letter using the disk management menu,
but it will not format the drive. The error notice is saying "format did not
complete successfully." The Error that shows up in the event viewer system is
"The driver detected a controller error on \device\harddisk1\d". I am not
sure where to go with this.

"Walter Clayton" wrote:

> Have you formatted the drive yet?
>
> --
> Walter Clayton
> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
>
>
> "Matthew" <Matthew @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4C2EAF63-A41B-435F-8624-4F6AB5F0AA95@microsoft.com...
> > Help? I have an external hard drive enclosure, which I can put a 3 Gb hard
> > drive into and it works perfectly. I went out and bought a 120 Gb WD
> > Caviar
> > Se Drive to replace the 3Gb Hard Drive. Windows XP is recognizing it but
> > it
> > is not assigning it a drive letter. Can anyone help?
>
>

 

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OK. How is this enclosure attached to the system? Via USB/Firewire or
directly to an internal IDE/SCSI port on the motherboard or a controller on
the motherboard?

Do you know that the controller to which the drive is attached supports
drives that large?

--
Walter Clayton
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
http://www.dts-l.org


"Matthew" <Matthew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2890C25C-1E22-4B9B-94F4-4799F15BB39F@microsoft.com...
>I got it finally to show up as a drive letter using the disk management
>menu,
> but it will not format the drive. The error notice is saying "format did
> not
> complete successfully." The Error that shows up in the event viewer system
> is
> "The driver detected a controller error on \device\harddisk1\d". I am not
> sure where to go with this.
>
> "Walter Clayton" wrote:
>
>> Have you formatted the drive yet?
>>
>> --
>> Walter Clayton
>> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
>>
>>
>> "Matthew" <Matthew @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:4C2EAF63-A41B-435F-8624-4F6AB5F0AA95@microsoft.com...
>> > Help? I have an external hard drive enclosure, which I can put a 3 Gb
>> > hard
>> > drive into and it works perfectly. I went out and bought a 120 Gb WD
>> > Caviar
>> > Se Drive to replace the 3Gb Hard Drive. Windows XP is recognizing it
>> > but
>> > it
>> > is not assigning it a drive letter. Can anyone help?
>>
>>

 

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The external enclosure is connected through USB 2.0. I don't know if the
controller can handle the larger discs. I would think that it would being a
newer product, but it very well could not handle the hard drives considering
I tried two maxtor drives and they did the same thing.

"Walter Clayton" wrote:

> OK. How is this enclosure attached to the system? Via USB/Firewire or
> directly to an internal IDE/SCSI port on the motherboard or a controller on
> the motherboard?
>
> Do you know that the controller to which the drive is attached supports
> drives that large?
>
> --
> Walter Clayton
> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
> http://www.dts-l.org
>
>
> "Matthew" <Matthew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2890C25C-1E22-4B9B-94F4-4799F15BB39F@microsoft.com...
> >I got it finally to show up as a drive letter using the disk management
> >menu,
> > but it will not format the drive. The error notice is saying "format did
> > not
> > complete successfully." The Error that shows up in the event viewer system
> > is
> > "The driver detected a controller error on \device\harddisk1\d". I am not
> > sure where to go with this.
> >
> > "Walter Clayton" wrote:
> >
> >> Have you formatted the drive yet?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Walter Clayton
> >> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
> >>
> >>
> >> "Matthew" <Matthew @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:4C2EAF63-A41B-435F-8624-4F6AB5F0AA95@microsoft.com...
> >> > Help? I have an external hard drive enclosure, which I can put a 3 Gb
> >> > hard
> >> > drive into and it works perfectly. I went out and bought a 120 Gb WD
> >> > Caviar
> >> > Se Drive to replace the 3Gb Hard Drive. Windows XP is recognizing it
> >> > but
> >> > it
> >> > is not assigning it a drive letter. Can anyone help?
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

 

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Double check the specs. Different controllers have different break points on
the size of the device they'll support.

--
Walter Clayton
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.


"Matthew" <Matthew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:727C8C36-2643-45CA-8653-B22B4D467122@microsoft.com...
> The external enclosure is connected through USB 2.0. I don't know if the
> controller can handle the larger discs. I would think that it would being
> a
> newer product, but it very well could not handle the hard drives
> considering
> I tried two maxtor drives and they did the same thing.
>
> "Walter Clayton" wrote:
>
>> OK. How is this enclosure attached to the system? Via USB/Firewire or
>> directly to an internal IDE/SCSI port on the motherboard or a controller
>> on
>> the motherboard?
>>
>> Do you know that the controller to which the drive is attached supports
>> drives that large?
>>
>> --
>> Walter Clayton
>> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
>> http://www.dts-l.org
>>
>>
>> "Matthew" <Matthew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2890C25C-1E22-4B9B-94F4-4799F15BB39F@microsoft.com...
>> >I got it finally to show up as a drive letter using the disk management
>> >menu,
>> > but it will not format the drive. The error notice is saying "format
>> > did
>> > not
>> > complete successfully." The Error that shows up in the event viewer
>> > system
>> > is
>> > "The driver detected a controller error on \device\harddisk1\d". I am
>> > not
>> > sure where to go with this.
>> >
>> > "Walter Clayton" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Have you formatted the drive yet?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Walter Clayton
>> >> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Matthew" <Matthew @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:4C2EAF63-A41B-435F-8624-4F6AB5F0AA95@microsoft.com...
>> >> > Help? I have an external hard drive enclosure, which I can put a 3
>> >> > Gb
>> >> > hard
>> >> > drive into and it works perfectly. I went out and bought a 120 Gb WD
>> >> > Caviar
>> >> > Se Drive to replace the 3Gb Hard Drive. Windows XP is recognizing it
>> >> > but
>> >> > it
>> >> > is not assigning it a drive letter. Can anyone help?
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>