Notebook Win X Pro cannot detect HDD

[Guest Jimmy Hsu]

I have an old 3.5" Internal Hard Disk Drive (IDE) with a lot of data that I

wanted to access from my notebook (Fujitsu Lifebook). So I bought an USB

external enclosure for the Hard drive. Howevr when I plugged the USB into

the notebook USB port, the notebook did not detect the hard drive. I

reboooted the notebook and tried again. Still didnt work. I'm running Win

XP Pro on the notebook.

 

Any advice?

[Guest Kevin Cole]

Re: Notebook Win X Pro cannot detect HDD

 

Just a stab, have you logged onto machine as an administrator when adding

the usb drive? Can you test the drive on nother machine?

 

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"Jimmy Hsu" <jimmy@eaglecps.com> wrote in message

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>I have an old 3.5" Internal Hard Disk Drive (IDE) with a lot of data that I

>wanted to access from my notebook (Fujitsu Lifebook). So I bought an USB

>external enclosure for the Hard drive. Howevr when I plugged the USB into

>the notebook USB port, the notebook did not detect the hard drive. I

>reboooted the notebook and tried again. Still didnt work. I'm running

>Win XP Pro on the notebook.

>

> Any advice?

>

[Guest Malke]

Re: Notebook Win X Pro cannot detect HDD

 

Jimmy Hsu wrote:

> I have an old 3.5" Internal Hard Disk Drive (IDE) with a lot of data that

> I

> wanted to access from my notebook (Fujitsu Lifebook). So I bought an USB

> external enclosure for the Hard drive. Howevr when I plugged the USB into

> the notebook USB port, the notebook did not detect the hard drive. I

> reboooted the notebook and tried again. Still didnt work. I'm running

> Win XP Pro on the notebook.

 

1. Try the enclosure on a different computer. If it isn't seen, make sure

you have it installed in the enclosure correctly. Most USB enclosures want

you to set IDE hard drives as Master.

 

2. If the drive is installed in the enclosure correctly and still isn't seen

on a different computer, try a different enclosure. If it is seen, the

first enclosure is faulty (or you really did have it installed wrong). If

the drive isn't seen in a different enclosure, the drive may have died.

 

Note: with USB hard drive enclosures, you really need one that gets its

power from a power adapter, not from the laptop. While a laptop might have

enough power to get an external laptop hard drive spinning up, it also

might not and that might be causing your issue. So check out this

possibility first.

 

Malke

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[Guest Jimmy Hsu]

Re: Notebook Win X Pro cannot detect HDD

 

Yes, I plugged it to a Desktop PC running Vista and it is detected at once!

I did not need to set any IDE master.

 

The Enclosure is powered by a separate adapter that came with the Enclosure.

 

How do I set it to be Master IDE?

 

 

 

 

 

"Malke" <malke@invalid.invalid> wrote in message

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> Jimmy Hsu wrote:

>

>> I have an old 3.5" Internal Hard Disk Drive (IDE) with a lot of data that

>> I

>> wanted to access from my notebook (Fujitsu Lifebook). So I bought an USB

>> external enclosure for the Hard drive. Howevr when I plugged the USB

>> into

>> the notebook USB port, the notebook did not detect the hard drive. I

>> reboooted the notebook and tried again. Still didnt work. I'm running

>> Win XP Pro on the notebook.

>

> 1. Try the enclosure on a different computer. If it isn't seen, make sure

> you have it installed in the enclosure correctly. Most USB enclosures want

> you to set IDE hard drives as Master.

>

> 2. If the drive is installed in the enclosure correctly and still isn't

> seen

> on a different computer, try a different enclosure. If it is seen, the

> first enclosure is faulty (or you really did have it installed wrong). If

> the drive isn't seen in a different enclosure, the drive may have died.

>

> Note: with USB hard drive enclosures, you really need one that gets its

> power from a power adapter, not from the laptop. While a laptop might have

> enough power to get an external laptop hard drive spinning up, it also

> might not and that might be causing your issue. So check out this

> possibility first.

>

> Malke

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> MS-MVP

> Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!

> FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

>

[Guest Malke]

Re: Notebook Win X Pro cannot detect HDD

 

Jimmy Hsu wrote:

> Yes, I plugged it to a Desktop PC running Vista and it is detected at

> once!

> I did not need to set any IDE master.

>

> The Enclosure is powered by a separate adapter that came with the

> Enclosure.

>

> How do I set it to be Master IDE?

 

You don't need to change to Master because it probably already is. You would

only need to if it wasn't seen while connected to the desktop computer. IDE

drives use jumpers to set Master/Slave/Cable Select and other options.

 

Since it works on the desktop computer, get all your data off and burn to

CD/DVD-R so you can transfer it to you notebook if so desired.

 

Malke

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