Anyone know anything about external hard drives?

[ThunderMaverick]

I got a new motherboard and a new hard drive. For my old hard drive I took it out of my computer and put it into an enclosure with a USB port. I plugged my old harddrive (in the enclosure) into my new computer and it doesn't give me access to the files. It says it's "working properly" in the devices menu but it doesn't open the folder to the hard drive.

Anyone know how I can get access to my old hard drive?

 

[Alle_Gory]

Can you see it as a normal USB drive in explorer?

 

[ThunderMaverick]

What do you mean? When I open my window for "my computer" a list of drives comes up. My usb hard drive doesn't show up. I look at it through the devices menu and it says "it's working properly". Strange, no?

How can it be working properly if I can't get to the hard drive?

 

[Privitor]

DId you set the master/slave jumper properly?
The operating system may have set automatically the reading/writing permissions as denied.


Why are you asking THAT on THIS forum? :crazy:

(check it out on google; most likely 50 other people have had the same problem)

 

[Desdinova]

DId you set the master/slave jumper properly?

That's what I was wondering too. Unless it's a SATA drive.

It could also be an issue between USB 1.1 and USB 2.0. How old is your PC?

Did you drop the HD or zap it with static electricity before you put it in the enclosure? What file system was your hard drive formatted as?

It's also possible that the USB interface on the external hard drive isn't working.

Try re-connecting the hard drive to the PC and see if it boots. That will eliminate hard drive failure. You could also install it in your PC as a slave drive instead of using the USB interface.

Not sure if you need drivers for a USB hard drive to work in Windows, since I don't use that ancient OS anymore. In Linux, I'd have to mount the drive if I wanted to use it, as well as give myself permissions to read/write to it.

 

[DJ#7436]

Rightclick "my computer" -->"Manage"
Go into "disk managment" and see what it says for that drive letter.

DJ#7436