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Finding hard drive from hard disk enclosure
Asamof the Horrible
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I recently purchased one of these http://www.scythe-usa.com/product/hdd/003/nu350otp_detail.html and inserted my hard drive into it. It immediatly installed the software once the usb was plugged in and turned on, but the problem is I can't locate the folder to acsess the hard drive. I normally assume it's located in the my computer folder, but nothing showed up.
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When I plug it in it makes the confirmation beep (the one where when you plug in USB devices)
When plugged in and on, I get the safely remove hardware notice on the bottom right corner of the computer.
It came with an install disc, but I could only get a folder up with many different installation folders, half of them not even supporting windows XP.
I checked newegg reviewers, and they all agreed on pros that it indeed installs immediatly with no need of the disc, and got quick instant acsess.
Thanks!
Things may be worth mentioning
When I plug it in it makes the confirmation beep (the one where when you plug in USB devices)
When plugged in and on, I get the safely remove hardware notice on the bottom right corner of the computer.
It came with an install disc, but I could only get a folder up with many different installation folders, half of them not even supporting windows XP.
I checked newegg reviewers, and they all agreed on pros that it indeed installs immediatly with no need of the disc, and got quick instant acsess.
Thanks!
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You can find the tools to do this in Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management, though it might be a little different in XP.
It might also just be that you need to assign a letter to the partition, if one isn't shown in the upper list next to it. Again - just right click on the partition and select assign letter or "change drive letter and paths"->add.
At night, the ice weasels come."
What made you not able to access them?
http://www.thelostworlds.net/
So there is no "Disk 2" in the listing below that? The partitions won't be listed until you initialize the drive IIRC.
Maybe there's something wrong with the enclosure-hard drive connection? Windows might be recognizing just the adapter when you plug it in. Do you feel/hear the drive spin up in the enclosure?
At night, the ice weasels come."
The Disk Management program in Vista can also do it.
At night, the ice weasels come."
I use a Knoppix Live cd and run qtparted to resize partitions.
I'm not sure if this appies or not, but do the harddrive master/slave jumpers need to be changed? (assuming this is an ATA/IDE drive)
Reasoning: The enclosure may require the drive to be set to Master or Lone Master or Cable Select or something.
i reformatted the drive - which i didnt need to
do as above, right click my computer>manage, check out the disk management and make sure the drive has a letter on it.
if it still doesnt work, its probably your physical jumper settings on the actual drive. - change them to cable select or whatever it is. mine was on master previously.
all should be good.