External drive not working

thealmightyone

thealmightyone

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Well, my laptop died last year, but I kept the hard drive. By die, I mean I broke it.

I recently got an enclosure for it, and plugged it into my computer. The usual little messages popped up (device detected... device installed successfully... device now works).

Thing is, it doesnt show in 'My Computer'. In Device Manager, it shows up as 'Generic USB Disk USB Device".

A CD did come with the enclosure, with these

files on it. Haven't installed any of them, as I'm lost with them. Id did try updating drivers, through device manager, with CD in, but nothing new was installed.

Can anyone help me get it working?

You can do remote assistance through MSN messenger if you want, anything to get it working.
 
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Does it have a partition? If not, create one using something like Partition Magic or in WIndows XP by going to Administrative Tools.
 
Before you partition it or do n e thing with it if you still want to get the data off by chance go into the disk management and look and see if it shows up there it may just have the C letter still assigned to it and if you change it to like F or something it may popup i had this problem with mine when i first got it and by simply changing the letter of the drive it worked!
 
codeman0013 said:
Before you partition it or do n e thing with it if you still want to get the data off by chance go into the disk management and look and see if it shows up there it may just have the C letter still assigned to it and if you change it to like F or something it may popup i had this problem with mine when i first got it and by simply changing the letter of the drive it worked!
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Good idea, I had that problem before too...don't know why I didn't think of it earlier when I was writing my earlier post. :P
 
Well, Partitionmagic wont even load up, so thats void.

The drive shows up in Device Manager, under 'Disk Drives', with my other HD's. But, it doesn't show up in disk management. So, can't do partitions at the moment.



This drive isn't off the shelf, btw. The enclosure was off the shelf, but the HD was from a laptop.
 
And how do you suggest I change the drive letter?

This is connected through 2 USB ports (1 for power, 1 for data transfer and a little bit more power). I would have thought that "Generic USB Disk USB Device" would give that away.
 
Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management, Right click on the drive and select "Change Drive Letter and Paths..." and follow the steps on there.

If it's on as C, change it to something else, like D.
 
Friggin idiot.

OK:

1) Scroll up.
2) Click the screenshot I posted.
3) Where do you see the 40GB drive? Because, I don't see one. The 34.6 GB is not it as (look in my siggy) it is a Raptor.

I did post that screenshot for a reason.
 
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