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hdd in external firewire/usb 2.0 enclosure not recognized in xp
regarding the first part of proposed solution, there is no data on the drive...it's new. as to the second, that would possibly work, except it's a laptop...only one ide controller for hard drives. the secondary controller, for the cd-rom, uses a different connector. also i don't have a long...- seezee
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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hdd in external firewire/usb 2.0 enclosure not recognized in xp
connexion is direct to either firewire or usb port. usb port is known to work as i can use it w/ other devices. no other devices are connected at this time. spare cable test did not resolve problem. device mgr shows no problems w/ usb or firewire controllers. also updated drivers for usb...- seezee
- Post #7
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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hdd in external firewire/usb 2.0 enclosure not recognized in xp
as noted in my original post, the drive does not show up in disk management, not even after refresh/rescan, so impossible to partition & format. also, usb is enabled, so that's not the problem either. any other thoughts? thanks, --cz- seezee
- Post #5
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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hdd in external firewire/usb 2.0 enclosure not recognized in xp
forgot to mention...drive came set for "cable select". after many failed attempts to get xp to recognize it, i set it to "master" (having found that suggestion on some of the forums), but that did not fix the problem.- seezee
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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hdd in external firewire/usb 2.0 enclosure not recognized in xp
just bought a seagate 250GB/7200/ultra-ata100/8MB internal drive & a masscool "uhb-fi310" ieee 1394/usb 2.0 enclosure to use on my sony pcg-grx560 laptop. sony has 4 pin firewire and usb 1.0. also boughta 6 pin to 4 pin cable. enclosure uses external power supply. os is win xp sp2. bios does not...- seezee
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