External HD problems!

[dgmorr]

Been lurking for quite a while now. This place has some great thought provoking threads! Real technical people! So here is my first post in the form of a question. I've searched EVERYWHERE for help, but turned up to dead ends.

I am running WinXP with SP2 working fine.

I bought an iMex 2.5" HD enclosure
40GB 5400 RPM Fujitsu 2.5" drive

Got home, hooked it all up. Showed up in Disk Manager, so I formatted it using NTFS. It worked fine. Then I stopped the device and unplugged it. Plugged it back in and it is not recognized. No USB icons show up. The drive does not show up anywhere. There is a LED on the enclosure. Red when it is active, green when it's safe to unplug. The light is alawys green. I was able to reformat the drive using FAt32 with 2 ~20GB partitions. I still cannot get it to work with any computer. It only works on ONE computer that I've tried and it has to be plugged in during boot up.

ANY help at all please? I've tried everything I could think of.

 

[xeonzx86]

try plugin the hdd directly to ide channels........make sure nothin is wrong with HDD.......once u r sure that it is workin properly..........then check USB cables .....


BTW even i am using a USB enclosure with seagate 120GB(baracuda) all NTFS partitions..........almost every few hours i change it between diff PC's and laptops..........so there are no issues with frequent removals

 

[dgmorr]

Thanks for the reply.

I forgot to mention that I already tried that. It works fine. I went out and bought one of those 2.5" - 3.5" converters. I can access it from there no problem. I thought it might have been the cable as well. My friend has the identical enclosure and I tried my cable on his box, it worked fine. I have not tried swapping the box though. Would it be possibly a problem with the enclosure itself? I doubt it's damaged in anyway.

Like I said before, I had it working on ONE computer during boot up only.

Is it possibly the HD that is not compatible? I am not sure what he is running in his enclosure. I know it's not the same HD though.

For those that live in Canada. I went to Canada Comptuers to try and return the drive, they would not because it was not defective....I say it is...sort of. What would be a way to 'defect' this drive to qualify for an exchange with no stupid 15% fee?:evil:

 

[LTC8K6]

Is the drive powered from the USB port?

Is the drive set as a master?

 

[dgmorr]

Forgot to mention that too!

Yes, the HD is set as master, I have also tried slave and cable select to no avail.

It is powered by the USB port, but I have also used the external supply just incase.

I think I have tried EVERYTHING. But you never know...

 

[xeonzx86]

i think u have to replace case..........there is nothin wrong with hdd,power supply,cable..........then u have to replace it
i dunno about ur canada seen.but if the shop people say they won't take it back just bcouz it is workin......then just make it totally non workin( just short the usb pins or something

 

[dgmorr]

Hmm, I thought it might have beent he case. Are there some sort of built-in functions in the controller in the case?

I guess my next step is to test out my HD in my friend's case tonight. Hoping it's the case. I hate Canada Computers!