HDD Enclosure and XP

Hi everyone,
I have looked through all of the old posts regarding what problems people have had with HDD enclosures and XP and unfortunately have not found a solution.

Here is my situation:
Imicro 3.5" HDD Enclosure
Seagate 160 GB IDE Drive ( works inside of the machine, has all of its data)
Windows XP Pro SP2

Windows XP recognizes the enclosure and installs it as a USB Mass Storage Device. My instructions say to set the hard drive ( Seagate ) as master with the jumper which I did.

But, it never shows up in Windows Explorer as a drive, neither does it show up
in Disk Management.

My next step was to play with the jumpers. I set it to the setting that says
"limits drive to 32 GB" and the drive showed up in Windows Explorer.
Windows XP then says the drive is "not formatted", do you want to format it now?

I said NO

So, I have a conundrum where the drive won't show up unless I set it to the min size. But, since the drive does show up when I set the drive to the min size, I feel like somehow Windows can't see the 160 GB size and recognize it as as master?

I then went out and bought another drive by another manufacturer and the same thing happened. So, this seems to be a problem between Windows XP and the external drive.

Thanks for any help!

David

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David Williams
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Email: dw149.RemoveThis@prism.gatech.edu

David Williams <dw149 RemoveThis @acmex.gatech.edu> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I have looked through all of the old posts regarding what problems
> people have had with HDD enclosures and XP and unfortunately have not
> found a solution.
>
> Here is my situation:
> Imicro 3.5" HDD Enclosure
> Seagate 160 GB IDE Drive ( works inside of the machine, has all of
> its data)
> Windows XP Pro SP2
>
> Windows XP recognizes the enclosure and installs it as a USB Mass
> Storage Device. My instructions say to set the hard drive ( Seagate
> ) as master with the jumper which I did.
>
> But, it never shows up in Windows Explorer as a drive, neither does
> it show up
> in Disk Management.
>
> My next step was to play with the jumpers. I set it to the setting
> that says "limits drive to 32 GB" and the drive showed up in Windows
> Explorer.
> Windows XP then says the drive is "not formatted", do you want to
> format it now?
>
> I said NO
>
> So, I have a conundrum where the drive won't show up unless I set it
> to the min size. But, since the drive does show up when I set the
> drive to the min size, I feel like somehow Windows can't see the 160
> GB size and recognize it as as master?
>
> I then went out and bought another drive by another manufacturer and
> the same thing happened. So, this seems to be a problem between
> Windows XP and the external drive.

The problem is the enclosure, not the drive. Get a better enclosure and it will work fine.