UNSOLVED
Accessing External Hard Drives w/Vista
I can't figure out how to get Vista to access external drives. I bought a Mad Dog 2.5" enclosure and two 3.5" models to install my old PC's hard drives hoping to transfer files and pictures to my new XPS420. I'm not having any luck with either the USB or the ESATA hookups. Any advice? I don't want to format these hard drives obviously as I would loose all the files I'm trying to save.
213
0
Posted August 18th, 2008 21:00
Already tried that with both USB and ESATA hookups. The drive never shows up in "My Computer" It's in the device manager, however there's no way to get into it and access files that I can find.213
0
Posted August 19th, 2008 10:00
Go to the Control Panel/System Maintenance then Under Administrative Tools, click on the Create and Format Hard Disk Patitions and see if it's listed there and possibly what advice Windows has to make the disk available.
Inspiron 16 5630 Laptop and WD22TB4 Docking StationSelf-built desktop for recording studio application213
0
Posted August 19th, 2008 12:00
I don't see "create&format hard disk partitions" as a choice there.213
0
Posted August 19th, 2008 16:00
I went through something similar recently. Had an old 300GB Maxtor drive that when plugged in via usb, couldn't access it. I had to remove it from it's external carrier, plugged it into a pc that had IDE/PATA port so i can copy all the files over. I then formatted it to NTFS, put it back into it's external carrier and was able to have full access. Copied all the files back and it's working fine now.213
0
Posted August 19th, 2008 17:00
Right click on my computer select manage the disk management window will open. it will also look for all drives.
You can also open windows explorer(not internet explorer) to see the drives.
fireberd
11 Legend
•
33399 Posts
•
112848 Points
213
0
Posted August 18th, 2008 21:00
See my response to your identical post in the Vista section.
This would have probably been the most appropriate forum section to post, rather than the Vista section. Also multiple posting of the same problem is discouraged on this forum as it can cause confusion in many cases.