Unable to detect external hard drive

[silverarindam]

I have an old Fujitsu 160 GB 2.5 inch mechanical drive that I salvaged from my broken laptop, and I want to use it as an external Hard Drive. I also bought an external case. But the drive is not showing up in My Computer section. I can feel the drive spinning.
I did some troubleshooting of my own. I connected my drive in my desktop internally through a sata port and it works fine. I even found it listed on my disk manager. It was accessible from My Computer as well. (I guess this indicates that the drive is fine.)
But whenever I try to use it as an external drive, it neither shows up in My Computer, nor is it listed in disk manager. Rather, whenever I connect it, I get a double beep tone on my speakers.

The enclosure specifications are:
• Interface: USB2.0: 480Mbps; SATA I: 1.5Gbps
• Casing Material: Aluminium
• LEDs: Yes
• Power Source: Bus-Powered
• AC Input: No
• DC Input: No
• Supported OS: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7, MAC 9.x or above
• Emission (EMI): FCC, CE Mark, RoHS

I use Windows 7 ultimate 64bit OS. I've even tried to connect it to a 32bit OS, but the same problem persists.
Any help in this regard will be appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey silverarindam. You did pretty well by trying the drive separately. I'd also recommend that you use an HDD diagnostic tool to test the drive with it, just in case. Also I'd recommend that you try it with the enclosure and with another computer and if you have the chance - try a different drive with the enclosure to see if the same thing happens so that you could single out the problem in case the enclosure turns out to be faulty.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

 

[silverarindam]

I tried the hard drive with another enclosure, it does not work there also. But works through sata port.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

If it doesn't work with two different enclosures, then we can exclude the possibility that the enclosure might be at fault here. Perhaps it's some sort of an incompatibility issue. I'd suggest that you contact the enclosure manufacturer's customer support to inquire about the issue and see if they can help you.

 

[ArtPog]

And you've tried connecting the enclosures to different USB 2.0 ports with the same results?
And each of the 2 enclosures are using different USB cables?