Switching Drives with an External Drive Case

peterinio · 12-11-2005, 05:20 AM

Hail to all the Techies in the Forums!

I recently bought a Captiva 2.5" external case which had a Fujitsu hard drive with it (60 gigs).I also happen to have bought a Nomad Jukebox Zen (the 60 gig edition) that had the same 2.5" Fujitsu drive with it.The question is, why does my PC recognize only the Fujitsu drive that came with the case and it doesn't recognize the Fujitsu drive taken from my Zen?And first of all,is swapping HDs from device to device possible?

Thanks in advance!

**linderman** · 12-11-2005, 06:08 AM

computer experience tells me the swapping should work / after all external enclosures are nothing more than a case with connectors / nothing spooky there are there any jumpers set on the Zen drive which interfere with the main computers config (it should be set to master if I remember correctly for external drives ?????)

try both ways / are there jumper settings on the usb enclosure itself ???? I saw one version where the usb enclosure had jumpers and the user also had jumpers set on the drive in the enclosure >>>> that didnt work

joe

**johnwill** · 12-11-2005, 10:49 AM

Well, are you sure it doesn't recognize it at all? Remember, it's very likely that the Nomad is not formatted with a Windows compatible filesystem. Have you looked in Disk Management to see if it's simply not formatted?

**linderman** · 12-11-2005, 05:23 PM

yeah >>> bet john will just hit the nail on the head !!!

joe

12-11-2005, 05:20 AM	#1 (permalink)
peterinio Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Thessaloniki Posts: 24 OS: Win XP home	Switching Drives with an External Drive Case Hail to all the Techies in the Forums! I recently bought a Captiva 2.5" external case which had a Fujitsu hard drive with it (60 gigs).I also happen to have bought a Nomad Jukebox Zen (the 60 gig edition) that had the same 2.5" Fujitsu drive with it.The question is, why does my PC recognize only the Fujitsu drive that came with the case and it doesn't recognize the Fujitsu drive taken from my Zen?And first of all,is swapping HDs from device to device possible? Thanks in advance! __________________ "I find your lack of faith disturbing"

12-11-2005, 06:08 AM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,437 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	computer experience tells me the swapping should work / after all external enclosures are nothing more than a case with connectors / nothing spooky there are there any jumpers set on the Zen drive which interfere with the main computers config (it should be set to master if I remember correctly for external drives ?????) try both ways / are there jumper settings on the usb enclosure itself ???? I saw one version where the usb enclosure had jumpers and the user also had jumpers set on the drive in the enclosure >>>> that didnt work joe __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

12-11-2005, 10:49 AM	#3 (permalink)
johnwill Manager, Networking Forums Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania, US Posts: 41,654 OS: Windows 7, XP-Pro, Vista, Linux Blog Entries: 1	Well, are you sure it doesn't recognize it at all? Remember, it's very likely that the Nomad is not formatted with a Windows compatible filesystem. Have you looked in Disk Management to see if it's simply not formatted? __________________ If TSF has helped you, Tell us about it! or Donate to help keep the site up! Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

12-11-2005, 05:23 PM	#4 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,437 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	yeah >>> bet john will just hit the nail on the head !!! joe __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial