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C drive on laptop hard drive can not be seen when in USB enclosure

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LABachlr

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I have a friend whose laptop's hard drive is partitioned into two partitions. The mobo died on it, so I took out the HD and put it in a USB enclosure. For whatever reason, it will read the "D" drive, but not the "C." It's acting as if the "C" drive does not even exist. I tried adding a jumper, but to know avail.

Any ideas what the deal is?
 
I checked in Disk Manager, and it says that the G drive (aka C drive of the laptop HD) is healthy and "active." But it does not see it in My Computer. What does "active" mean?
 
Originally posted by: gar3555
probably has something to do with the master/slave settings on the HD's
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Already tried that. I put the jumper on the slave setting, and it could not even read it. It can read it when it is the master, though. Maybe that is what it means by "active." Wonder why it can't even be read when it is jumpered to slave. I'm using a jumper from a regular 3.5" drive, btw. Are there smaller jumpers for laptop HD's? Would using a larger jumper matter?
 
hmmm...that is strange then, I pulled my C: drive out of my laptop, and after a quick jumper flip, it worked fine...maybe a reformat is in order
 
you might just need to right click on disk manager and assign a letter, unless the drive is encrypted or something else..
 
The enclosure just needed more power. Hooked it up to a USB 1.1 hub, which was connected to my USB 2.0 card that is in my laptop, and voila!
 
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