Not Reading Hard Drive

Southy · 02-04-2005, 05:57 AM

Hey guys,

I have this internal hard drive which I am trying to hook up to my laptop via an USB - IDE cable, that works fine and windows says it detects new hardware and installs and says device ready for use, but the device doesnt create a new drive letter or show up in My Computer. Its like Windows detects that its there but doesnt want to use it.

I have heard of hard drives being locked and/or having to be unlocked before they can be used, do you think that, that might be the case here? I'm not really sure but certainly open to any ideas so I can get this drive working for extra storage space. So any ideas?

02-04-2005, 05:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
Southy Silver Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 233	Not Reading Hard Drive Hey guys, I have this internal hard drive which I am trying to hook up to my laptop via an USB - IDE cable, that works fine and windows says it detects new hardware and installs and says device ready for use, but the device doesnt create a new drive letter or show up in My Computer. Its like Windows detects that its there but doesnt want to use it. I have heard of hard drives being locked and/or having to be unlocked before they can be used, do you think that, that might be the case here? I'm not really sure but certainly open to any ideas so I can get this drive working for extra storage space. So any ideas?

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