External Drive Not Mounting

[CTrainBEB]

I took my seagate 120gb hard drive out of one of my computers, which it was working normally in, and put it into an external hard drive case, which was working normally with the hard drive that was previously in it. I then hooked it up to my machine and it recognizes it, says found new hardware and all that; i can see the drive through device manager, but it doesn't show up under my computer and i can't navigate to it. Anyone got any ideas?

 

[sniperruff]

correct jumper?

 

[CTrainBEB]

yea, i have it set to master, the last hard drive in was also set to master. maybe i'll try slave just for kicks

 

[CTrainBEB]

nah, no dice with slave or cable select. I can't remember how i have the drive formatted, NTFS or FAT, but would that matter at all?

 

[Trey22]

No, it wouldn't matter what file format (FAT/FAT32/NTFS) it was formatted as.

USB or Firewire connection?

 

[CTrainBEB]

usb, it is a 2.0 and i tried both 2.0 and 1.0

 

[imported_trowa]

I think you need to re-setup the drive letter of your harddisk. You can do it via Computer Management console. Right-click on My Computer icon then select "manage". Then go to Computer Management (Local) - Storage - Disk Management. Then check if there is another device that is using the drive letter of your harddisk.

 

[Sforsyth]

I've had simaular problem when using extanestions and hubs and even different usb posrts.

 

[CTrainBEB]

alright i think i've found the problem. I went into the disk management a la trowa's suggestion and it says that the hard drive is dynamic and also says foreign, i have no idea what these mean really, but next to it there is a 'yield sign with an error'. Anyone got any suggestions off of this new infomation?


**edit: after doing some research into, it it turns out that dynamic drives cannot be mounted to removable media devices like external cases. Looks like i'm sol. Thanks for you help anyway though

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, Master/Slave and CS only apply to two drives on the same IDE cable. Master is OK for external drives. Did it need for you to load a driver? Jim