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Old August 27th 06, 11:24 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
harlydavison
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Hi, I have one of those cases for a hard drive or cd/dvd for an external
connection, made by ADS Tech. It attaches thru a USB port. Now it worked
while back, i.e there is no drivers needed for an XP machine and the
system recognized it ok and it would show up under My Comp.
Now i put in a 160gb Maxtor drive and although it will show up under My
Comp/Properties/Hardware , i can not access it as far as see it and
write to it.
It is formatted etc.as i had it inside the pc b4, but now i want to use
it to back up my laptops etc.
Any ideas anyone?
Cheers, Robert
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Old August 27th 06, 06:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Kenny
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Default USB Ext HDrive

Also HDD's in an external box should always be jumpered as Master.
BTW I recently had a Maxtor 160GB in one of these and it failed at a few
months old. Now if anyone asks me about buying one of these I always tell
them to get one which is self powered and has cooling fans.

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Bob Horvath wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:24:54 +1000, Bob Horvath wrote:

I had a similar problem. I had to disable it in device manager, then I
rebooted, and it worked ever after.



Hi, I have one of those cases for a hard drive or cd/dvd for an external
connection, made by ADS Tech. It attaches thru a USB port. Now it worked
while back, i.e there is no drivers needed for an XP machine and the
system recognized it ok and it would show up under My Comp.
Now i put in a 160gb Maxtor drive and although it will show up under My
Comp/Properties/Hardware , i can not access it as far as see it and
write to it.
It is formatted etc.as i had it inside the pc b4, but now i want to use
it to back up my laptops etc.
Any ideas anyone?
Cheers, Robert




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Old August 28th 06, 03:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Jonny
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Default USB Ext HDrive

"harlydavison" wrote in message
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Hi, I have one of those cases for a hard drive or cd/dvd for an external
connection, made by ADS Tech. It attaches thru a USB port. Now it worked
while back, i.e there is no drivers needed for an XP machine and the
system recognized it ok and it would show up under My Comp.
Now i put in a 160gb Maxtor drive and although it will show up under My
Comp/Properties/Hardware , i can not access it as far as see it and write
to it.
It is formatted etc.as i had it inside the pc b4, but now i want to use it
to back up my laptops etc.
Any ideas anyone?
Cheers, Robert


Few things here. The USB external case may be limited in capacity to 132GB.
So, may not be able to decipher the partition already on the hard drive.
If the hard drive was present in another PC, its partition created and
formatted there, may be a problem. You may have to remove the partition
with disk management, create another and format it.
A hard drive in an external case should always jumpered as master. Check
this first.
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Jonny


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Old August 30th 06, 12:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
harlydavison
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Default USB Ext HDrive

Jonny wrote:
"harlydavison" wrote in message
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Hi, I have one of those cases for a hard drive or cd/dvd for an external
connection, made by ADS Tech. It attaches thru a USB port. Now it worked
while back, i.e there is no drivers needed for an XP machine and the
system recognized it ok and it would show up under My Comp.
Now i put in a 160gb Maxtor drive and although it will show up under My
Comp/Properties/Hardware , i can not access it as far as see it and write
to it.
It is formatted etc.as i had it inside the pc b4, but now i want to use it
to back up my laptops etc.
Any ideas anyone?
Cheers, Robert


Few things here. The USB external case may be limited in capacity to 132GB.
So, may not be able to decipher the partition already on the hard drive.
If the hard drive was present in another PC, its partition created and
formatted there, may be a problem. You may have to remove the partition
with disk management, create another and format it.
A hard drive in an external case should always jumpered as master. Check
this first.

Thanks Jonny, you mita hit it on the nose, I'll give it try. I'll
reformat it in various way and'll see what happens.
Thanks to all on your input.
Rob
 




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