I replaced my Lenovo t61 laptop HDD with an SSD so I want to use my HDD as an external drive. When I put the HDD in an enclosure it is recognized by device manager (correctly identified WDC WD, "working properly") but not by disk manager (no letter, no block representing it). The same happens on another laptop and on my desk top (all three systems are Windows XP). I tried using 2 other known good enclosures, all with the same result. Suspecting that there is a problem with the HDD I put it back into the laptop and it booted up Windows just fine. Suspecting that there is something wrong with the formatting, I left the HDD in the laptop and booted the laptop on my GParted CD. GParted of course saw the drive so I partitioned it as a non-bootable ntfs drive, all one big partition. I put the SSD back in the laptop and the HDD back in the enclosure and booted up, but still got the same result (in device mgr, not in disk mgr). I then booted GParted again, with the HDD as external, and GParted could only see the SSD.
I've also tried to "populate" the drive under device management, volumes tab, but it comes back saying status=unreadable, capacity 0 MB.
I've also tried disabling in device manager and then find new hardware but it gets found with nothing in disk manager for it.
What could be wrong here?
I've also tried to "populate" the drive under device management, volumes tab, but it comes back saying status=unreadable, capacity 0 MB.
I've also tried disabling in device manager and then find new hardware but it gets found with nothing in disk manager for it.
What could be wrong here?