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**prsings** · 04-17-2007, 11:18 PM

I installed my Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA HD (320 Gig) in a Sabrent Serial ATA (SATA) or IDE 3.5" Hard Drive to USB 2.0 External Aluminum Enclosure Case. When I opened My computer it didn't appear. I went to device manager, and it showed as a hard drive and as a mass storage device in my USB tree. Properties said it is working, and update driver says this is the best driver available. Details have info in most categories, If needed I will copy them.

In computer Management/Disk Management, it appears as a crosshatched box, Disk 2, 298.09 GB Unallocated, with no Drive letter. All my other drives have letters and say "Healthy." What I think need to do is format and partition the drive, but I don't know how to access it without a drive letter to select. Can someone guide me?

In Setup I have tried setting each HDD setting to "AUTO" all at the same time and each separately, still no drive.
I downloaded SeaTools (Dos) and ran a check on my HDDs but it didn't see the external at all. Same with TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk.)

04-17-2007, 11:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
prsings I helped the forums. Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Colorado Posts: 120 OS: WinXP Home My System	Trouble with external USB, SATA I installed my Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA HD (320 Gig) in a Sabrent Serial ATA (SATA) or IDE 3.5" Hard Drive to USB 2.0 External Aluminum Enclosure Case. When I opened My computer it didn't appear. I went to device manager, and it showed as a hard drive and as a mass storage device in my USB tree. Properties said it is working, and update driver says this is the best driver available. Details have info in most categories, If needed I will copy them. In computer Management/Disk Management, it appears as a crosshatched box, Disk 2, 298.09 GB Unallocated, with no Drive letter. All my other drives have letters and say "Healthy." What I think need to do is format and partition the drive, but I don't know how to access it without a drive letter to select. Can someone guide me? In Setup I have tried setting each HDD setting to "AUTO" all at the same time and each separately, still no drive. I downloaded SeaTools (Dos) and ran a check on my HDDs but it didn't see the external at all. Same with TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk.) __________________ PR My system is in my profile.