Notebook Win X Pro cannot detect HDD

[Jimmy Hsu]

I have an old 3.5" Internal Hard Disk Drive (IDE) with a lot of data that I
wanted to access from my notebook (Fujitsu Lifebook). So I bought an USB
external enclosure for the Hard drive. Howevr when I plugged the USB into
the notebook USB port, the notebook did not detect the hard drive. I
reboooted the notebook and tried again. Still didnt work. I'm running Win
XP Pro on the notebook.

Any advice?

 

[Kevin Cole]

Just a stab, have you logged onto machine as an administrator when adding
the usb drive? Can you test the drive on nother machine?

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[Malke]

I have an old 3.5" Internal Hard Disk Drive (IDE) with a lot of data that
I
wanted to access from my notebook (Fujitsu Lifebook). So I bought an USB
external enclosure for the Hard drive. Howevr when I plugged the USB into
the notebook USB port, the notebook did not detect the hard drive. I
reboooted the notebook and tried again. Still didnt work. I'm running
Win XP Pro on the notebook.

1. Try the enclosure on a different computer. If it isn't seen, make sure
you have it installed in the enclosure correctly. Most USB enclosures want
you to set IDE hard drives as Master.

2. If the drive is installed in the enclosure correctly and still isn't seen
on a different computer, try a different enclosure. If it is seen, the
first enclosure is faulty (or you really did have it installed wrong). If
the drive isn't seen in a different enclosure, the drive may have died.

Note: with USB hard drive enclosures, you really need one that gets its
power from a power adapter, not from the laptop. While a laptop might have
enough power to get an external laptop hard drive spinning up, it also
might not and that might be causing your issue. So check out this
possibility first.

Malke

 

[Jimmy Hsu]

Yes, I plugged it to a Desktop PC running Vista and it is detected at once!
I did not need to set any IDE master.

The Enclosure is powered by a separate adapter that came with the Enclosure.

How do I set it to be Master IDE?

 

[Malke]

Yes, I plugged it to a Desktop PC running Vista and it is detected at
once!
I did not need to set any IDE master.

The Enclosure is powered by a separate adapter that came with the
Enclosure.

How do I set it to be Master IDE?

You don't need to change to Master because it probably already is. You would
only need to if it wasn't seen while connected to the desktop computer. IDE
drives use jumpers to set Master/Slave/Cable Select and other options.

Since it works on the desktop computer, get all your data off and burn to
CD/DVD-R so you can transfer it to you notebook if so desired.

Malke