meridius10 Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 I've put an external drive into a caddy and it's not recognised as an E:\ drive (or under any other letter) on my laptop.When I do this in Linux, I get access to the external HDD but this isn't the case in Windows XP or 7.Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 Does it show up in Disk Management?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meridius10 Posted November 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2010 No, not in Disk Management.But if you right click on the bottom icon to remove it (safely) it recognises it as 'USB to IDE Bridge'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted November 2, 2010 Report Share Posted November 2, 2010 What Format is this drive ? FAT32 ? NTFS ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meridius10 Posted November 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 NTFS.Someone told me that this may be something to do with power. I have a PCMCIA USB Adapter and will attach the power supply to it later 2night and see if this changes anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meridius10 Posted November 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 Tried something new:Put in another HDD with only Windows 7 - this displayed as an external drive.My conclusion is that dual boot systems (Windows/Linux) won't necessarily show up (something to do with GRUB not being recognised).Not sure about blank HDD's, but that's probably also the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted November 5, 2010 Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 I'd go with the power issue suggestion. An external 2.5 inch drive I have will give indications of working if it is plugged into a USB port but it fails to work. It is only when a second power source (another USB port or USB power unit) is attached that the drive is properly recognised By Windows.I can't explain why it functions with Linux and not Windows, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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