Unable a hard disk drive

Stewart1234

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I have an enclosure with my hard drive in it and connected it to the computer it was not found and i think its because its disabled i go to computer manage disk managemtent and recovery disk,i click properties click on my hard drive (toshiba...) click enable, then i click next and it says windows was not able to enable the hard drive

 

diellur

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A bit more info would be helpful. Is this an internal drive you've put in an external caddy? What happens when you plug it into the USB port, does it get recognised or do you get an error message? Is it spinning (can you hear it when you apply power)?