Problems with USB caddy

Please can someone help?
I'm using a USB enclosure to add a 160Gb HDD to my computer. Sometimes, the
drive is not recognised at all, but even when I can get Windows XPHome to
eventually show the drive in My Computer, I can only access it for about ten
minutes. After this time I get a Write Failed error message, if I try to save
anything to it.
I have tried the drive (a Maxtor DiamondMax) as master, slave, or cable
select, but no luck.
Looking through this help group, I found one recommendation to delete the
USB ports and reinstal them. How do I do this, please?

My machine has AMD 2400+ 2Gb with 1024Mb RAM. Hope this helps.

Thanks in anticipation.
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Relevant Pages

  • RE: Transferring my entire system to a new computer.
    ... Simple way to approach this is a USB enclosure, hook the OLD HDD you ... since I have both a master and a slave IDE drive that I need to copy ... machine as well as peripherals that require installed drivers? ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: switching external HD for internal one??
    ... HDD within the enclosure be removed by the user? ... using a disk imaging program such as Acronis ... And, if practical, install the 30 GB drive in your USB enclosure. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: switching external HD for internal one??
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  • Re: External Hard Drive Recognition problem
    ... Try connecting the drive to another computer. ... While you had the HDD installed as a secondary HDD in your desktop machine ... removing the HDD from the USB enclosure you "connected it to a USB2.0 IDE ... You *did* install the drive as an internal ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Help with data retrieval
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