Re: can't read hd in enclosure

On 3/6/2006 4:04 PM anon scribbled:

> "Porpoise" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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>> "anon" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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>>> 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.) 
> 
> 
I was curious about the advice to reformat.  But whats keeping you from
just going to where the HD works and copy the data to a floppy or CD?
The HD problem doesn't sound like its worth the trouble - could be
anywhere in this mix -fat vs. ntfs, bios, HD manufacturer/hardware
failure, XP -
sheesh...
p.s. by /enclosure/ do you mean an internal drive?