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USB hard drive case

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okalex

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Hello

In order to facilitate a change of hard drive in my notebook computer I bought an external USB hard drive case with the intention to thus make all my data accessible after installing a new drive inside the computer.

However, although the lights on the case turned on, the computer could not detect it. I tried this both on a win XP, which, according to the instructions does not require installing any driver, and on a win 98 machine, which should have detected it and required installing the necessary driver.

Does this mean the casing was defective, or did I make some mistake?

The old drive contained a single fat32 partition with windows 98.

By the way, I know that had it worked it should have appeared as a new drive. But if it had several partitions, would they have appered as several new drives?

Thanks
 
check the jumper on your HDD (Master, Slave, Cable Select) and try different ones. I don't remember which setting I ended up using for mine but the HDD enclosure instructions were wrong on which to use.

My enclosure is a Bytecc. If that's what you're using let me know and I will check what setting was needed to make it work.
 
Thank for the replies.

Unfortunately, I don't have the enclosure anymore.

But the question that interests me now is whether there was something wrong with putting a disk with data, one that had previously served as my internal drive, in an enclosure in order to access the data it contains.
 


But the question that interests me now is whether there was something wrong with putting a disk with data, one that had previously served as my internal drive, in an enclosure in order to access the data it contains.[/quote]

No. This is done all of the time & is an excellent way to transfer data. Sounds to me like you tried it in different machines with no luck. All of your existing partitions would have also been there if the enclosure worked.
 
Thanks for your reply.

So is it reasonable to belive it was the specific enclosure that was defective, and that I can expect to be able to access my data if I get one that works?
 
Originally posted by: okalex
Thanks for your reply.

So is it reasonable to belive it was the specific enclosure that was defective, and that I can expect to be able to access my data if I get one that works?
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Yes
 
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