external laptop HDD problem with USB 2.0

[Guest ind_123]

The IDE drive is from a laptop and runs with the USB cable power. I

can hear the drive running when I hook it up. It was working on the

laptop before. I have seen the Disk management but nothing there. The

problem seems to be that the windows fails to install the new

hardware.

 

It gives me message that recognised "USB-IDE"

then as "USB Mass Storage "

then it pops up saying "Failed to install new hardware"

reason being that device is not recognised. I dont know how to solve

it.

[Guest Don Phillipson]

Re: external laptop HDD problem with USB 2.0

 

"ind_123" <dhulapati@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:1185909507.567010.203740@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

> The IDE drive is from a laptop and runs with the USB cable power. . . .

> It gives me message that recognised "USB-IDE"

> then as "USB Mass Storage "

> then it pops up saying "Failed to install new hardware"

> reason being that device is not recognised. I dont know how to solve

 

1. What does / Control Panel / System / Device Manager

say about (a) hard drives, (b) USB devices ? The yellow

triangle flags problems.

 

2. IDE drives are one sort of hard drive (IDE = Internal

Drive Electronics) and USB drives connect differently

as USB devices (i.e. do not use IDE connectors.)

Repost identifying your problem drive.

 

(Your earlier post to this NG appeared 4 times.)

 

--

Don Phillipson

Carlsbad Springs

(Ottawa, Canada)

[Guest ind_123]

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Re: external laptop HDD problem with USB 2.0

 

Yeah, I have been frantically posting all over to get the IDE-USB

worked.

 

I dont see any triangles..surprisingly!

Here is what I see

 

under the USB connections in Device Manager,

 

"USB Mass Storage" appears andafter some time dissapears again.

I see a pop up in right hand bottom corner saying "Failed to install

the hardware as windows cannot recognise the device type"

 

Thats all I can tell.

[Guest glee]

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Re: external laptop HDD problem with USB 2.0

 

Are you attaching the laptop hard drive with USB cable to a computer running Win98,

or WinXP? You mentioned "Disk management" in your original post, and that is a

feature of XP, not 98.

 

If you are attaching the USB connection to an XP system, you should be asking about

this in an XP group.

--

Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+

http://dts-l.org/

http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

 

 

"ind_123" <dhulapati@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:1185991896.270878.131910@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

> Yeah, I have been frantically posting all over to get the IDE-USB

> worked.

>

> I dont see any triangles..surprisingly!

> Here is what I see

>

> under the USB connections in Device Manager,

>

> "USB Mass Storage" appears andafter some time dissapears again.

> I see a pop up in right hand bottom corner saying "Failed to install

> the hardware as windows cannot recognise the device type"

>

> Thats all I can tell.

>

[Guest Bill Watt]

Re: external laptop HDD problem with USB 2.0

 

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:18:27 -0000, ind_123 <dhulapati@gmail.com>

wrote:

>The IDE drive is from a laptop and runs with the USB cable power. I

>can hear the drive running when I hook it up. It was working on the

>laptop before. I have seen the Disk management but nothing there. The

>problem seems to be that the windows fails to install the new

>hardware.

>

>It gives me message that recognised "USB-IDE"

>then as "USB Mass Storage "

>then it pops up saying "Failed to install new hardware"

>reason being that device is not recognised. I dont know how to solve

>it.

 

Could it be the drive is formatted NTFS instead of FAT32? Win98 SE

may see the drive but can't recognize the format.

 

Or are you running XP?

 

Regards,

 

Bill Watt

Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/

[Guest ind_123]

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Re: external laptop HDD problem with USB 2.0

 

Im sory people for posting in Win98 site. I would rather ask someone

in WinXP site.

 

 

On Aug 2, 12:53 am, Bill Watt <nobw...@ptd.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:18:27 -0000, ind_123 <dhulap...@gmail.com>

> wrote:

>

> >The IDE drive is from a laptop and runs with the USB cable power. I

> >can hear the drive running when I hook it up. It was working on the

> >laptop before. I have seen the Disk management but nothing there. The

> >problem seems to be that the windows fails to install the new

> >hardware.

>

> >It gives me message that recognised "USB-IDE"

> >then as "USB Mass Storage "

> >then it pops up saying "Failed to install new hardware"

> >reason being that device is not recognised. I dont know how to solve

> >it.

>

> Could it be the drive is formatted NTFS instead of FAT32? Win98 SE

> may see the drive but can't recognize the format.

>

> Or are you running XP?

>

> Regards,

>

> Bill Watt

> Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/

[Guest Bill Watt]

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Re: external laptop HDD problem with USB 2.0

 

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:14:20 -0700, ind_123 <dhulapati@gmail.com>

wrote:

>Im sory people for posting in Win98 site. I would rather ask someone

>in WinXP site.

 

Here's one you could try.

 

Microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

 

Regards,

 

Bill Watt

Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/