Lost External Enclosure USB Drive access.

[Kardon Coupé]

Dear All,

I needed to pull some files of someone HDD, so I thought rather than open my
machine I'll just stick the drive into my USB2.0 external enclosure. I did I
what I needed to to, and put my drive back into, only to find it didn't
show.

So I waited and pulled the USB cable and heard windows do the noise saying a
device has been removed, I waited and plugged it back in, heard the noise
again, but still nothing.

So I tried again (after the HDD access light had stopped flashing), this
time around a box popped up saying it found Harware, gave me so obscure
name, and again didn't work.

Long story short when the HDD is in my external enclosure it doesn't work,
but if I plug it into a IDE cable via my caddy conntected via a Raid card
the drive is there, and works, and has no errors on it after using device
testing programs from the manufacture.

So I used a USB info program to have alook see around, and this program can
give me access to locations in the Registry refering to the USB device. Now
before I start twiddling with thing that could make my pc fall over I
thought I might come here, as I'm thinking now it is a registry error, and
the machine doesn't actually know the device or details, or they are
corrupt? Am I right in thinking this? can it be rectified. I'm hoping a
re-install is not required.

Hope someone can help me with this matter.
Regards
Paul.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Dear All,

I needed to pull some files of someone HDD, so I thought rather than open my
machine I'll just stick the drive into my USB2.0 external enclosure. I did I
what I needed to to, and put my drive back into, only to find it didn't
show.

So I waited and pulled the USB cable and heard windows do the noise saying a
device has been removed, I waited and plugged it back in, heard the noise
again, but still nothing.

So I tried again (after the HDD access light had stopped flashing), this
time around a box popped up saying it found Harware, gave me so obscure
name, and again didn't work.

Long story short when the HDD is in my external enclosure it doesn't work,
but if I plug it into a IDE cable via my caddy conntected via a Raid card
the drive is there, and works, and has no errors on it after using device
testing programs from the manufacture.

So I used a USB info program to have alook see around, and this program can
give me access to locations in the Registry refering to the USB device. Now
before I start twiddling with thing that could make my pc fall over I
thought I might come here, as I'm thinking now it is a registry error, and
the machine doesn't actually know the device or details, or they are
corrupt? Am I right in thinking this? can it be rectified. I'm hoping a
re-install is not required.

Hope someone can help me with this matter.
Regards
Paul.

I recently purchased three identical USB enclosures. Two of them
worked as expected, one showed the same symptoms as yours.
After exchanging it, it worked perfectly.

 

[Cymbal Man Freq.]

USB 2.0 may have been crippled severely by two Windows XP Critical Updates in
mid-December 2005. Uninstalling those updates may not fix this type of problem
completely. Suggest using USB 2.0 enclosure on a different operating system. I
in no way endorse ALL Windows Critical updates like most others here do, but
most updates are OK,...maybe. If you keep trying to make this USB 2.0 HDD work
with XP on your computer, you will likely corrupt the USB 2.0 hard drive and
require a reformatting which likely won't complete because of the Critical
Updates referred to in a previous sentence. They screwed up the system, and I've
yet to see an appropriate fix this year. Find another way to get your data back
other than USB 2.0 on XP, which you seem to have done. For those of us with 2
Bootable HDD's already in the machine and no way to put in another internal
drive, we cannot use your solution.