USB Enclosure And Old OS Hard Drive..

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I have installed an old Windows 98SE Hard Drive into a USB enclosure but
I can't see the drive in Windows XP. I've set the old drive as Master.
I've tired this on three different OS drives.

XP sees the USB enclosure but doesn't see the hard drive in the USB
enclosure. Is this because the hard drive is a bootable OS drive?

I do all this using a right mouse click on My Computer and then select
Manage and then Disk Management.

I know the USB enclosure works because I was able to see and format a
new hard drive using XP's disk management.
 
JD said:
I have installed an old Windows 98SE Hard Drive into a USB enclosure but I
can't see the drive in Windows XP. I've set the old drive as Master. I've
tired this on three different OS drives.

XP sees the USB enclosure but doesn't see the hard drive in the USB
enclosure. Is this because the hard drive is a bootable OS drive?
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No, it's probably because you have the jumpers set incorrectly.

While it would seem obvious that the jumper should be set to Master, this
doesn't always work.

For example, on many Western Digital drives I have, when I put them in
enclosures they aren't detected if they are jumpered to Master. But they
are detected properly if I *remove* the jumpers.

So, you've got a bit of experimenting to do, and just don't bolt the cases
together completely till you sort out the jumpering.

HTH
-pk
 
Patrick said:
No, it's probably because you have the jumpers set incorrectly.

While it would seem obvious that the jumper should be set to Master, this
doesn't always work.

For example, on many Western Digital drives I have, when I put them in
enclosures they aren't detected if they are jumpered to Master. But they
are detected properly if I *remove* the jumpers.

So, you've got a bit of experimenting to do, and just don't bolt the cases
together completely till you sort out the jumpering.

HTH
-pk
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You were in the ballpark. I had to jumper the drive as a *slave*. After
I posted my message I tried with no jumper but that didn't work either.

For anybody reading along, the drives are very old Western Digital drives.
 
JD said:
I have installed an old Windows 98SE Hard Drive into a USB enclosure but I
can't see the drive in Windows XP. I've set the old drive as Master. I've
tired this on three different OS drives.

XP sees the USB enclosure but doesn't see the hard drive in the USB
enclosure. Is this because the hard drive is a bootable OS drive?

I do all this using a right mouse click on My Computer and then select
Manage and then Disk Management.

I know the USB enclosure works because I was able to see and format a new
hard drive using XP's disk management.
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I would get some new drives while they are reasonable.
 
W****n S***********g said:
I would get some new drives while they are reasonable.
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These are old ide drives from old computers. One of them was Windows 95
and a whopping 2 GB in size. My new computer uses two 320 GB sata
drives and I've got three extra sata drives, one in a USB enclosure.

I'll fess up here a little, I'm not really using a usb enclosure for the
old drives, I'm using a Vantec USB to ide/sata drive adapter. It's
pretty cool for going through old or new drives without having to
install them into the case or an enclosure.
 
JD said:
These are old ide drives from old computers. One of them was Windows 95
and a whopping 2 GB in size. My new computer uses two 320 GB sata drives
and I've got three extra sata drives, one in a USB enclosure.

I'll fess up here a little, I'm not really using a usb enclosure for the
old drives, I'm using a Vantec USB to ide/sata drive adapter. It's pretty
cool for going through old or new drives without having to install them
into the case or an enclosure.
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No need to "fess up".. I've got two of those on my bench right now, and I
took one to a client's this evening. They can work *great* and are not
expensive.

You are simply taking a prudent approach.

HTH
-pk
 
Patrick said:
No need to "fess up".. I've got two of those on my bench right now, and I
took one to a client's this evening. They can work *great* and are not
expensive.

You are simply taking a prudent approach.

HTH
-pk
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It's a cool little tool. A usb enclosure without a case, so to speak.
Everyone should have one!
 
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