WD1200JB Drive in USB Enclosure

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Hugo Gilberts

Hi All

I purchased USBTech HDD enclosure about 2 weeks ago and I still can't get it
to work. The HDD is a Western Digital WD1200JB, formatted to NTFS. I'm using
it on a Sony Vaio PCG-FR215H with Windows XP Home. The system recognises the
drive and you can see it in device manager but not on 'My Computer'. System
drive formatted to NTFS.



I have tried this on 3 other systems, 2 with XP Home, 1 with Windows 2000
and not one of them will give it a drive letter.



Any ideas has to get around this so it will work??



Regards

Lee
 
Did you ask WD tech support if that drive is compatible with and would work
from a USB external enclosure?

Hugo Gilberts said:
Hi All

I purchased USBTech HDD enclosure about 2 weeks ago and I still can't get
it to work. The HDD is a Western Digital WD1200JB, formatted to NTFS. I'm
using it on a Sony Vaio PCG-FR215H with Windows XP Home. The system
recognises the drive and you can see it in device manager but not on 'My
Computer'. System drive formatted to NTFS.

I have tried this on 3 other systems, 2 with XP Home, 1 with Windows 2000
and not one of them will give it a drive letter.
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Hugo Gilberts said:
Hi All

I purchased USBTech HDD enclosure about 2 weeks ago and I still
can't get it to work. The HDD is a Western Digital WD1200JB,
formatted to NTFS. I'm using it on a Sony Vaio PCG-FR215H with
Windows XP Home. The system recognises the drive and you can see
it in device manager but not on 'My Computer'. System drive
formatted to NTFS.

I have tried this on 3 other systems, 2 with XP Home, 1 with
Windows 2000 and not one of them will give it a drive letter.

Any ideas has to get around this so it will work??
Click to expand...

Go to Disk Management. Reformat the drive. Do not assign a drive
letter.
 
Hugo Gilberts said:
I purchased USBTech HDD enclosure about 2 weeks ago and I still can't get it
to work. The HDD is a Western Digital WD1200JB, formatted to NTFS. I'm using
it on a Sony Vaio PCG-FR215H with Windows XP Home. The system recognises the
drive and you can see it in device manager but not on 'My Computer'. System
drive formatted to NTFS.

I have tried this on 3 other systems, 2 with XP Home, 1 with Windows 2000 and
not one of them will give it a drive letter.
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If it won't work, how do you know it is formatted?

Have you gone to Disk Manager and attempted to partition, format, and assign a
drive letter from there?

It is possible that the HD is too large for the enclosure. I have an older
USB/Firewire enclosure that is restricted to 135 GB even though my computers can
work with larger drives. I had to buy a new enclosure for my 300 GB Seagate.
 
Hi All

Thanks for your help. Disc is now formatting and all seems OK. Have lost
10GB, but who cares.

Thanks for your help.

Regards
Lee
 
Hugo said:
Hi All

Thanks for your help. Disc is now formatting and all seems OK. Have lost
10GB, but who cares.

Thanks for your help.

Regards
Lee
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That is about the right size for this particular drive. We
have put a number of them into USB enclosures for our users.
 
How is it jumpered?
The USB HDD enclosure I use requires the drive to be jumpered as Master
regardless of what any internal ones are.
Also WD drives may have a different jumpering depending on whether they are
in a single drive or dual drive PC.
 
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