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vaibhavrohal

Post subject: how to connect desktop hard disk to laptop by USB

Posted: September 27th, 2007, 10:31

Joined: September 27th, 2007, 10:02
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Hi all,, please help me in sorting out this problem.

I have seagate hard disk 'barracuda 7200.7' 200GB.which i was using in my desktop...
Now i have laptop & i want to connect it to my laptop externally..for this i have one IDE-USB cable & one power cable for it.....when i connect it with my laptop then laptop is not detecting the hard disk.......what should i do...

Vaibhav

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rameez

Post subject: Re: how to connect desktop hard disk to laptop by USB

Posted: September 27th, 2007, 12:50

Joined: June 27th, 2006, 11:33
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Location: In ur HDD !

Does the hdd work fine in PC ?

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: how to connect desktop hard disk to laptop by USB

Posted: September 27th, 2007, 13:57

Joined: November 29th, 2006, 10:08
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Location: UK

Check that the Seagate it set for Master (not slave or CS).

Most of these USB things are fussy about that.

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vaibhavrohal

Post subject: Re: how to connect desktop hard disk to laptop by USB

Posted: September 27th, 2007, 22:58

Joined: September 27th, 2007, 10:02
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thanks for reply It works fine with desktop with IDE-USB cable........but i have lost jumper for selecting the master or slave.......so i am not using any........

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dobrevjetser

Post subject: Re: how to connect desktop hard disk to laptop by USB

Posted: September 28th, 2007, 3:30

Joined: December 27th, 2006, 10:15
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That is the problem. Get a jumper, put the drive to master, and it will be solved.

Regards,

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: how to connect desktop hard disk to laptop by USB

Posted: September 28th, 2007, 6:38

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vaibhavrohal

Post subject: Re: how to connect desktop hard disk to laptop by USB

Posted: September 29th, 2007, 12:44

Joined: September 27th, 2007, 10:02
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Hi,
thanks for that advice, i arranged jumper & tried on all 4 combination, in that case my notebook as not even detecting hard disk..........with out jumper atleast hard disk was being detected......i could see it in device manager, drives & even in USB Controllers. as usb mass storage device..
but in this case disk is not been read........

thanks
vaibhav

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dobrevjetser

Post subject: Re: how to connect desktop hard disk to laptop by USB

Posted: September 29th, 2007, 12:54

Joined: December 27th, 2006, 10:15
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Location: Belgium

Then i would try it on another computer and see what the result is there. If the same, try another ide-usb convertor. (or try it in the shop where you buy it, so you are sure it works)

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: how to connect desktop hard disk to laptop by USB

Posted: September 29th, 2007, 13:05

Joined: November 29th, 2006, 10:08
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Location: UK

Hmm.

Check....

1. Make sure the HDD still works in the desktop.
2. Is the correct model no. shown in Device manager in the laptop?
3. Is the laptop formatted to FAT32 and the HDD formatted to NTFS (in that case the FAT32 cannot see the NTFS partition)
4. Check that SP2 installed on the laptop

Good luck

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pcparts

Post subject: Re: how to connect desktop hard disk to laptop by USB

Posted: October 2nd, 2007, 4:45

Joined: August 21st, 2007, 4:51
Posts: 4

Dear Sir

Please check you installed right drivers for USB controller in your laptop

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