USB connected HDs
- From: "Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:44:56 -0500
I purchased a Sata/IDE to USB Adapter to work with 6 old IDE hard drives I
accumulated from other PCs over the years. I connected the included external
power adapter to the HD and the USB adapter to the USB 2 ports on a PC
running XP SP2.
These PC USB ports work perfectly with other backup external HDs I own and
with USB flash drives. But: I cannot get my old HDs to show up on the PCs
using the
adapter cable.
I tried this with 2 different PCs, both running XP SP2 and had the same
problem with ALL my old IDE hardrives (set with jumper as "MA") using the
adapter, so I do not think it is a case of the HDs being bad or the PCs and
their USB ports being
bad.
What happens in all cases is:
1) the lights light up on the adapter showing it to be connected.
2) the icon showing that a USB device is connected shows on the Windows
taskbar, and when hovered on says there is a storage drive connected.
BUT,
a) no drive shows up in "My Computer", even on repeated refresh.
b) Computer management / Disk Management / does not reveal the presence of
the USB adapter connected HD
c) Device Manager shows (under USB controllers) that a storage device is
present and enabled and working correctly.
*Do I have to do anything in XP to make My computer show the HDs attached to
the PC with the USB adapter?
Thank you.
Jeff
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