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Originally Posted by Ninkobei
ohh, sorry I misread your original post. So your Laptop isnt recognizing the USB drive ey? hmm, I dont know why it would do that. and I dont know why a desktop would be a better place to format it than your laptop...unless maybe the drive is bad. I guess you've tried plugging it in and using the "detect new hardware" settings. And did your drive come with a drivers disk? that seems unusual to me but maybe it needs them.
edit: the "USB" enclosure means its an external hard drive correct? or is it just a regular hard drive inside a USB connector thingy. Another thought might be that maybe your Laptop's usb ports cant get enough power to the hard drive. if you could, try plugging the usb into a desktop maybe it will give out some more juice.
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It's a regular HDD inside a USB connector thingy.
I made sure the adapter has a seperate power-wart so power isn't an issue with it.
I'll do some more stuff tonight.
The reason that I was talking about laptop versus desktop is that I could open up a desktop and connect it directly to the IDE cable. Then I KNOW I could format it.
But the USB adapter mucks things up.