Help with usb hard drive

[ADEY100]

Got a ide internal drive in a caddy when i plug it in it goes through finding it and saying its ready to use but the drive isnt available to selet nothing shows up. Got another one which shows up exactly the same drive apart from it being a bit smaller

Any help please

thanks in advance:cheers:

[paxrax]

make sure its plugged in to the usb ports on the mobo, had a few probs with enough power getting to the front usb ports on some pcs. i.e. not enough power to run them sufficiently.

[ADEY100]

Yeah thought that mate but stll same

[polarstar]

try start and right click on my computer then select manage which will take you to computer management then select storage and disk management,
can you see it now?

[ADEY100]

No it doesnt show there either

[polarstar]

do you have another pc you can try the usb hard drive on just to see if it's working ok,
also check hardware device manager to make sure you don't have any yellow markers on it.

[PhilEnfield]

Does it not show in Disk Management ? .... Control Panel/Admin Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management

[ADEY100]

Phil disk management it showed and it needed a partition .. thanks for pointer

Thanks once again

Regards Adey

[PhilEnfield]

You're welcome m8y .... glad you manged to sort it :)