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So as a followup to this thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2196120&highlight=
I've been trying to access this 2.5" laptop HDD from an external enclosure. I've tried 2 enclosures, 1 brand new... and I still can't see the drive popup on My Computer even though it detected and says it's ready to use. It even shows up as Hitachi in the little popup USB-info bubble. I can hear the drive's fan(?) running...
Since this was a problem drive with bad sectors, I thought to give a known good drive from my new laptop a try. It also does not show up in My Computer. Troubleshooting tips say that it may not have enough power and to plug in the 2nd USB plug and that doesn't help either. This is on a Vista64 machine so maybe it's the 64-bit OS it has problems with so I bring it to my laptop (good drive in, bad drive in the enclosure) and it doesn't see it there either. The other thing the troubleshooting said is that it may have been formatted with an incompatible file system. But that doesn't explain how my good laptop drive wasn't seen from the enclosure when plugged in either.
Enclosure being used: http://www.amazon.com/AcomData-Samur.../dp/B003BIFOLI
I don't need the eSATA cable connected too do I? Says nothing about needing that connected in the manual. Just connecting with USB as per manual. The HDD is already plugged into the SATA connector on the inside.
EDIT>> also threw Lenovo's replacement drive (warranty for the bad drive) in there which has zero data on it... drive actually appears on My Computer, but is not accessible. (The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.)
I've been trying to access this 2.5" laptop HDD from an external enclosure. I've tried 2 enclosures, 1 brand new... and I still can't see the drive popup on My Computer even though it detected and says it's ready to use. It even shows up as Hitachi in the little popup USB-info bubble. I can hear the drive's fan(?) running...
Since this was a problem drive with bad sectors, I thought to give a known good drive from my new laptop a try. It also does not show up in My Computer. Troubleshooting tips say that it may not have enough power and to plug in the 2nd USB plug and that doesn't help either. This is on a Vista64 machine so maybe it's the 64-bit OS it has problems with so I bring it to my laptop (good drive in, bad drive in the enclosure) and it doesn't see it there either. The other thing the troubleshooting said is that it may have been formatted with an incompatible file system. But that doesn't explain how my good laptop drive wasn't seen from the enclosure when plugged in either.
Enclosure being used: http://www.amazon.com/AcomData-Samur.../dp/B003BIFOLI
I don't need the eSATA cable connected too do I? Says nothing about needing that connected in the manual. Just connecting with USB as per manual. The HDD is already plugged into the SATA connector on the inside.
EDIT>> also threw Lenovo's replacement drive (warranty for the bad drive) in there which has zero data on it... drive actually appears on My Computer, but is not accessible. (The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.)
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