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How to --USB hard drive ??
External hard drive cases are cheap on eBay,
often direct from Hong Kong to your door. I got one that was beautiful unless you look at the adapter circuit board closely. Flux mess and corrosion on solder joints. Failed too, but it was so cheap and it was all shipping and on buyers part for returns so not worth returning. I got some other IDE/SATA adapter boards for other purposes. Had good luck with one type but some others are not worth effort to ship back. You got lots of good advice but I would add the suspicion about the adapter circuit board being no good. Do you have a desktop system with an IDE port? I'd put each IDE onto another system's IDE port and run up the Windows Install CD to delete partitions and create new partitions. If you use the options right in the install CD you can partition all three then exit or reboot. Until the drive is formatted it may not show up in parts of Windows. Unformatted partitions do show up in the disk manager utility. Control Panel Administrative tools Computer Management Disk Management That utility allows formatting of raw partitions. I don't fully trust third party programs for formatting. Once you have a known good formatted drive, then if you hook it up through the external adapter and USB you eliminated the possibility of bad drive. If you have a spare power supply UNIT power the external IDE using that to eliminate power usage as the culprit. OLD IDE drives tend to use more power than later model IDE drives, too. That's why a POWERED external USB drive case would be better than one that gets power from one or two USB connectors. Doesn't SP3 include drivers for external usb drives? So: Eliminate possible format issue by doing that directly or on a working good machine. Eliminate power drain issue using a good old power supply unit Then let us know how it goes! |
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