External Hard drive problem

[Riffman]

Got a wee problem with the hard drive. Its a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 160GB SATA 150

Thats the one that is really a PATA with SATA connections...sigh.

So I just bought two external hard drive boxes to put the old HHD in. The first normal SATA works great. The maxtor fails to show up in My computer.

When I first plugged it in I got a blue screen of death... since then it has crashed the PC a few times.

There is nothing on the drive I need, but I cant even find it in Disk manager to format it.

Gah!

Can anyone help with this?

[Bobinovich]

I take it the external boxes are USB - if so can you check Device Manager to see if there's an unknown USB device with the yellow circle/black exclamation mark next to it.

If there is then just right click & uninstall it, then unplug & replug the external drive. This should allow it to redetect the drive, hopefully correctly this time.

[Riffman]

Hi, hum, nothing showing up. The actual hard drive case shows up but, with nothing in it so to speak. I am now a bit suspect about the fact it is not a real SATA drive.

I think I will probably just get a new 500gig one of something that will work!

Cheers,

Sam