External drive adapter keeps corrupting drives.

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I have had two drives fail while in external drive enclosures: Adaptec
ACS-100 and ACS-200. What I would like to do is to repair or reformat
the drives, but they are not recognize by windows. When I connect them
with the USB 2.0 windows does not recognize them. I can hear the
"found new hardware" sound, and then a few seconds later the
"disconnect hardware" sound. The light on the front of the drive
indicating read/write activity stays lighted. This is the same on both
enclosures.
Is there any way to determine if this is a hardware failure on the
drive, or if it is corrupted?
 
I have had two drives fail while in external drive enclosures: Adaptec
ACS-100 and ACS-200. What I would like to do is to repair or reformat
the drives, but they are not recognize by windows. When I connect them
with the USB 2.0 windows does not recognize them. I can hear the
"found new hardware" sound, and then a few seconds later the
"disconnect hardware" sound. The light on the front of the drive
indicating read/write activity stays lighted. This is the same on both
enclosures.
Is there any way to determine if this is a hardware failure on the
drive, or if it is corrupted?
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Install the drive internally in a desktop computer ?
Run diagnostic which is downloadable from the drive manufacturer ?

Paul
 
Install the drive internally in a desktop computer ?
Run diagnostic which is downloadable from the drive manufacturer ?

Paul
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I'm using this drive on a laptop, so I can't install it internally. I
just installed Seagate's SeaTools Enterprise Edition. It couldn't find
the drive either.
 
I'm using this drive on a laptop, so I can't install it internally. I
just installed Seagate's SeaTools Enterprise Edition. It couldn't find
the drive either.
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In the off chance that the problem is software related you might want to
check out one of these alternate boot disks. It is not impossible for USB
drivers and such to get confused enough in Windows so that they no longer
talk to certain drives. Using a alternative boot disk would rule that out
for you.

Try Ultimate Boot CD found here;
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
or
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (Bart PE) at;
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
 
I'm using this drive on a laptop, so I can't install it internally. I
just installed Seagate's SeaTools Enterprise Edition. It couldn't find
the drive either.
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There are adapters that go from 44 pin laptop drive connector, to
the 40 pin used by desktop internal drives (plus a power connector).

AFAIK, a laptop interface is 40+4, meaning 40 pins IDE plus 4 pins power.
The laptop drive runs from +5V and GND, and that is presumably the red
and black wire on the power plug here:

http://www.bay-wolf.com/hddadapter.htm

The adapter is mentioned here as well. What they are further suggesting, is
combining a 44-40 pin adapter plug and a 40 pin IDE to USB adapter, to convert
a laptop drive to USB. (Which is the same function you'd get from a 2.5"
IDE external enclosure.) The reason I'd rather plug the laptop drive, to a desktop
IDE cable (via the 44-40 pin adapter), is it is more likely the disk
manufacturer diagnostic will work with a Southbridge IDE interface. In the
past, such diagnostics were not as compatible with a variety of other
methods of connecting the drive.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040526233213/http://www.sewelldirect.com/25to35ideconverter.asp

Paul
 
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