Hi I have just bought a usb2 drive enclosure and fitted my 60 gig hard drive.
now when I plug it into my lap top on windoze xp it dings but I carn't find it anywere to access the hard drive........................Help
were the hell is it ?


Dave.

 

Should pop up syaing its installing new ahrdware, then when finished it will appear in my computer...maybe labelled H:, I:, or J: for example depending on how many other drive/devices you have

 

Hi mate

Sometimes this is because windows allocates it a letter that clashes with another device.

Not necessarily the case, but this is a good starting point. Look under Control Panel/ Performance and Maintenance. Then click on Administrative Tools. You then want to click on 'Computer Management'. From there, click on disk management (under Storage on the left hand side of the box).

See if the drive is listed there. If you havent used the driver before, then it is possible that you havent F-Disked it (given it a primary partition NTFS compatible). If so, you will need to do this. The drive should be listed in here. Right click on the drive, partition and format it, and hopefully all will be well with the world.

Hope this helps

JJ

 

ditto

its either not partitioned/formatted, OR its been alocated the ame drive letter as another drive.

both are nice n easy to fix

 

Thanks will give it a go

 

Hi I have found it is there a way of scanning it to see if there are any bad sectors or any thing with xp?


Dave.

 

so this is a home made external USB drive? i have been pricing bits up for that just this week!

what HD did you use? Is it a 3.5" laptop one? thats what i was told i needed. i know you can get the cases cheap on ebay. Is it a simple case of screwing the drive inside the case and off you go?

where did you get the cased and HD and how much?

chop

 

tubolag, use SCANDISK to check for bad sectors.

IMHO dont bother tho unless its been dropped

 

I borrowed it of a friend my hard drive is a 2.5" 60 gig Fujitsu mht 2060 ahs?
is scan disk part of xp?

 

yep.

right click on disk in my computer, properties, tools, error checking

 

Thanks Jim


Dave.