media drive - warm swapable

[underpantman]

i currenetly hava a hp media pc with a built in media bay and with this warm swapable drive comes a power pack and usb conection so you can hook this up to other pc/laptops i noticed the bay on my pc has its own usb and power adapter in the drive bay put when i slot it in nothing happend ...a light flickers on warm swapable as you insert it but then nothing and computer says there is nothing there please help me thanks :confused:

 

 

sorry forgot to tell you about my system it a windows vista home premium 32 bit

Edited October 6, 2008 by underpantman

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Are you talking about a pocket media drive?

 

If so this does not have a power supply but gets the power via plugging in the 2 usb connectors.

 

Are you saying that you have inserted the media whilst the pc is on?

[underpantman]

its not the pocket one but the bigger 300gigabite one it has 2 ports on the back for usb and a power one, i have separate leads for it and when i use these its instantly recognised and works. But while cleaning the heatsink the other week i noticed it had these same adapters built in the drive bay they just dont seem to work

 

i have inserted this warm swapable before its switched on and whilst it is switched on and i get nothing

 

noticed this

he has same problem but with xp not vista and he has power when he connects it into the bay

 

 

Edit: Forum link removed.

Edited October 7, 2008 by underpantman

[Dalo Harkin]

Right - let me get this right - you have a slot in one of the spaces at the front of the PC that acts as a 'hot swappable bay' and you also have an external enclosure for doing the same thing when you do not use the bays.

 

If the external enclosure works ok, but the swappable bay does not then the wires that connect the swappable bay to the Motherboard are not connected properly - can you take a screen shot of the inside (specifically where the wires run to from the swappable bay)

[underpantman]

ahh opened the tower again and had another look swapped the usb port on mother board to a different one and the power supply and hey presto we are working thanks for replying guys and thanks for adding me to this great site keep up the good work