Re: can't read hd in enclosure
"anon" <[email protected]>
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"Porpoise" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > "anon" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> >> There is the problem - my enclosure hd did not show up in the explorer so >> there was nothing to click on. >> > > At the risk of having missed something earlier in the thread, it sounds to > me like the drive hasn't actually yet been partitioned and formatted - > until it's been partitioned and formatted, there won't be anything to see > in Explorer. Did you partition it and format it when you got it home from > the shop? They usually come with instructions (when supplied in retail > packages) relating to how to make them usable. The don't usually come > pre-partitioned and formatted, as they don't know what system you are > going to be using. ** Actually, the drive was temporarily removed from an actively running win98se computer. AFAIK the drive satisfied all the requirements required for it to be read by another computer - in fact, I had installed it as a slave in another computer and it WAS readable. Reset the jumpers and it booted to win 98se. All the suggestions in this thread seem to come down to the conclusion that the drive needs to be reformatted by the winxp computer to be read - that is counterproductive as the reason for wanting to read it in the first place is that I want to copy files from it to the winxp computer (reformatting obviously is not the answer.)