HDD Enclosure and XP

[David Williams]

Hi everyone,
I have looked through all of the old posts regarding what problems people have had with HDD enclosures and XP and unfortunately have not found a solution.

Here is my situation:
Imicro 3.5" HDD Enclosure
Seagate 160 GB IDE Drive ( works inside of the machine, has all of its data)
Windows XP Pro SP2

Windows XP recognizes the enclosure and installs it as a USB Mass Storage Device. My instructions say to set the hard drive ( Seagate ) as master with the jumper which I did.

But, it never shows up in Windows Explorer as a drive, neither does it show up
in Disk Management.

My next step was to play with the jumpers. I set it to the setting that says
"limits drive to 32 GB" and the drive showed up in Windows Explorer.
Windows XP then says the drive is "not formatted", do you want to format it now?

I said NO

So, I have a conundrum where the drive won't show up unless I set it to the min size. But, since the drive does show up when I set the drive to the min size, I feel like somehow Windows can't see the 160 GB size and recognize it as as master?

I then went out and bought another drive by another manufacturer and the same thing happened. So, this seems to be a problem between Windows XP and the external drive.

Thanks for any help!

David

 

[Rod Speed]

Hi everyone,
I have looked through all of the old posts regarding what problems
people have had with HDD enclosures and XP and unfortunately have not
found a solution.

Here is my situation:
Imicro 3.5" HDD Enclosure
Seagate 160 GB IDE Drive ( works inside of the machine, has all of
its data)
Windows XP Pro SP2

Windows XP recognizes the enclosure and installs it as a USB Mass
Storage Device. My instructions say to set the hard drive ( Seagate
) as master with the jumper which I did.

But, it never shows up in Windows Explorer as a drive, neither does
it show up
in Disk Management.

My next step was to play with the jumpers. I set it to the setting
that says "limits drive to 32 GB" and the drive showed up in Windows
Explorer.
Windows XP then says the drive is "not formatted", do you want to
format it now?

I said NO

So, I have a conundrum where the drive won't show up unless I set it
to the min size. But, since the drive does show up when I set the
drive to the min size, I feel like somehow Windows can't see the 160
GB size and recognize it as as master?

I then went out and bought another drive by another manufacturer and
the same thing happened. So, this seems to be a problem between
Windows XP and the external drive.

The problem is the enclosure, not the drive. Get a better enclosure and it will work fine.

 

[Arno Wagner]

Hi everyone,
I have looked through all of the old posts regarding what problems people have had with HDD enclosures and XP and unfortunately have not found a solution.

Here is my situation:
Imicro 3.5" HDD Enclosure
Seagate 160 GB IDE Drive ( works inside of the machine, has all of its data)
Windows XP Pro SP2

Windows XP recognizes the enclosure and installs it as a USB Mass Storage Device. My instructions say to set the hard drive ( Seagate ) as master with the jumper which I did.

But, it never shows up in Windows Explorer as a drive, neither does it show up
in Disk Management.

My next step was to play with the jumpers. I set it to the setting that says
"limits drive to 32 GB" and the drive showed up in Windows Explorer.
Windows XP then says the drive is "not formatted", do you want to format it now?

I said NO

So, I have a conundrum where the drive won't show up unless I set it to the min size. But, since the drive does show up when I set the drive to the min size, I feel like somehow Windows can't see the 160 GB size and recognize it as as master?

I then went out and bought another drive by another manufacturer and the same thing happened. So, this seems to be a problem between Windows XP and the external drive.

Thanks for any help!

Maybe this is a very old enclosure that has a size problem?

Arno

 

[David Williams]

I tried another enclosure and got the same thing.
I believe Seagate has something that restricts
any external enclosure being used with their drives.


I tried a Western Digital 8Gb and it worked just fine.


I am hoping Seagate responds to my inquiry tomorrow and will
let everyone know what I find.

 

[Rod Speed]

I tried another enclosure and got the same thing.
I believe Seagate has something that restricts
any external enclosure being used with their drives.

You're wrong, plenty use them in external enclosures and
Seagate flog them in external enclosures themselves.

I tried a Western Digital 8Gb and it worked just fine.

But its much smaller. Likely the enclosure cant handle 160GB drives.

I am hoping Seagate responds to my inquiry tomorrow
and will let everyone know what I find.

They will just tell you what everyone else has told
you, that the problem is the enclosure, not the drive.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I tried another enclosure and got the same thing.
I believe Seagate has something that restricts
any external enclosure being used with their drives.

That is conceptually implausible and would be hard to do.

I tried a Western Digital 8Gb and it worked just fine.
Small.

I am hoping Seagate responds to my inquiry tomorrow and will
let everyone know what I find.

Well, my guess is Seagate cannot help you. Try with an
enclosure that is explicitely rated for disks > 128GB by the
manufacturer.

Arno

 

[David Williams]

This one does say it is for up to 500GB on the box.
So far, imicro has not responded to me.


David

 

[rick]

I'm running a Nexstar 3 w/ no hiccups.

Rick