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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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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. -- Kenny Cargill "Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs." Bob Horvath wrote in message ... 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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"harlydavison" wrote in message
... 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. -- Jonny |
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Jonny wrote:
"harlydavison" wrote in message ... 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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