western digital 500G USB

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Hugh Sutherland

I have a WD 500G HD and when connected to the IDE works great. I have
movies on it about 300G full. The problem is when I try to attach it to an
external USB case then plug that into the usb port the drive takes forever
to come up and be detected and when it does will not display my data. It
shows as a RAW drive with 0gigs used. Under disk management in
Administrative tools it shows as health but will not show as NTFS. Its
blank their. I don't want to format it again. Any ideas?
 
Hugh said:
I have a WD 500G HD and when connected to the IDE works great. I have
movies on it about 300G full. The problem is when I try to attach it to an
external USB case then plug that into the usb port the drive takes forever
to come up and be detected and when it does will not display my data. It
shows as a RAW drive with 0gigs used.
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Whenever this happens, the first thing to try is change the drive
selection setting from CS (Cable Select) to Master. However many WD
drives have 2 master settings, one for when the drive is used alone,
another for when it's the master drive and a slave drive is present.
 
Hugh Sutherland said:
I have a WD 500G HD and when connected to the IDE works great. I have
movies on it about 300G full. The problem is when I try to attach it to an
external USB case then plug that into the usb port the drive takes forever
to come up and be detected and when it does will not display my data. It
shows as a RAW drive with 0gigs used. Under disk management in
Administrative tools it shows as health but will not show as NTFS. Its
blank their. I don't want to format it again. Any ideas?
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Try limiting interface speeds to 1.5Gbps. WD has know issues with
USB-SATA bridges at SATA2 speeds.

Arno
 
Arno said:
Try limiting interface speeds to 1.5Gbps. WD has know issues with
USB-SATA bridges at SATA2 speeds.
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Hi, Arno. I think he said it's IDE. If it was SATA, putting the jumper
on the drive to limit it to 1.5 could have fixed it.

Sometimes the first external HD enclosure you try is not compatible with
your motherboard chipset and you have to try another. I had one that was
a problem until I got some drivers from the motherboard's support guys.

Also I agree to check that the jumper on the drive is on Master.
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Ed Light said:
Arno wrote:
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Hi, Arno. I think he said it's IDE. If it was SATA, putting the jumper
on the drive to limit it to 1.5 could have fixed it.
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You are right. My mistake. - Arno
Sometimes the first external HD enclosure you try is not compatible with
your motherboard chipset and you have to try another. I had one that was
a problem until I got some drivers from the motherboard's support guys.
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Also I agree to check that the jumper on the drive is on Master.
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Better World News TV Channel:
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Bring the Troops Home:
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I tried changing the jumpers from CS to MSTR to SLAVE etc the only
difference is sometime in device manager it comes up as GERNERIC VOID USB
DEVICE and sometimes as GENERIC USB DISK USB DEVICE. Either way it shows up
as RAW with nothing on it (when it does show up in MY COMPUTER) and I know
their is data on it.

Why would the EXT closure not support NTFS since FAT32 only goes no highter
then 32GIG. TODAYS HD's are all NTFS so todays USB enclosures should
support NTFS.

Why would the external usb housing only support up to 320GIG and not higher?
 
I tried changing the jumpers from CS to MSTR to SLAVE etc the only
difference is sometime in device manager it comes up as GERNERIC VOID USB
DEVICE and sometimes as GENERIC USB DISK USB DEVICE. Either way it shows up
as RAW with nothing on it (when it does show up in MY COMPUTER) and I know
their is data on it.

Why would the EXT closure not support NTFS since FAT32 only goes no highter
then 32GIG. TODAYS HD's are all NTFS so todays USB enclosures should
support NTFS.

Why would the external usb housing only support up to 320GIG and not higher?
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In the past, I've run into enclosures where the IDE <-> USB bridge
chip wouldn't support drives larger than 120 GB (or maybe it was
137GB). I suspect that was due to the 28-bit LBA addressing limit
that also affected older PC ATA interfaces.
 
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