Re: External Hard Drive Not Recognized
- From: "hoerschy" <hoerschy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 20:28:04 -0600
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve W." <Dugdug56@xxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: External Hard Drive Not Recognized
>
> What do you have the jumper on the drive set to? How is it formatted?
> The first USB case I bought called for master on the drive. The next
> said it didn't matter. The new ADS I have now doesn't care. Also the
> first time I installed it on my Dell it didn't show up until I updated
> the drivers from the web site. Then it worked fine.
> --
> Steve Williams
>
>
> "hoerschy" <hoerschy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:5lNkf.14655$cR4.1335@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> I recently purchased an Adaptec USB 2.0 external hard drive enclosure
> that I
>> wanted to use with a working 4.3 gig Western Digital hard drive that I
> had.
>>
>> I plugged the USB 2.0 cable into my Dimension 4600 and the computer
> noted
>> that it found some new hardware and said that it was a USB to IDE
> hardware
>> device. It then said that the driver was installed but this driver
> required
>> the computer to be rebooted. I rebooted the computer and then plugged
> the
>> USB cable back in. It noted the model number of the hard drive but
> then
>> indicated that there was a problem with the hardware installation and
> the
>> hardware might not work.
>>
>> Well, there was a problem alright. The drive does not show up in
> Device
>> Manager or in Windows Explorer. I deleted the USB controllers in
> Device
>> Manager and then had the computer find the controllers and went
> through the
>> installation procedure for the external hard drive again. Same
> results. I
>> then tried installing this external hard drive in my Inspiron 6000.
> Same
>> results. Tried this several times over a couple of days on both
> computers
>> using various USB ports but had no success.
>>
>> As a last resort, I tried the external hard drive on my old Gateway
> 800. It
>> recognized the hard driver immediately and was usable, even though
> this
>> computer only has USB 1.0 ports. The only other thing different was
> that
>> both Dells were using XP Home and the Gateway was using XP
> Professional.
>>
>> Can anyone explain why this drive will not work in my Dell computers
> but
>> will work fine in my old Gateway. I really wanted this for my Dells.
>>
>>
>
>
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The instructions said to set the hard drive to master which is what I set it
to originally. Eventually, I tried all of the settings without any luck.
Which drivers did you upgrade? From what I can tell, I am up to date on all
drivers that would have an affect.
.
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