Grujee
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« on: October 27, 2009, 08:37:59 AM » |
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Hi Britec09
One Issue
I have a 1TB WD SATA HD and when I try to connect it to my PC using HDD enclosure it is detected and USB device successfully loads it. But it does not gets any drive letter assigned. I checked the Hard Drive in Computer Manangement and it is appearing there but with no drive letter. Anyhow, if I connect it to my motherboard SATA controller and boot my pc. Everything works fine. I also checked the drive with Drive Fitness Tools and I got 0x00 means everything is okay. I suspect its a bad enclosure circuity. Correct me if I am wrong.
Second Issue (main problem)
If we have a similar drive which is detected but not getting any drive letter by pc. How we can do data recovery from it. Remeber it is not getting any drive letter even in compute management -> Hard Drive management. So if we try to run a data recovery programs like Recouva or Professional Data Recoveery, they are also unable to locate the attached hard drive? Symptoms are good as hard drive is spinning and there are no clicking sounds. How we can retrieve the data from such drive.
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Britec
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« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2009, 10:13:51 AM » |
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Is it a new drive?
Because a new drive without a partition cannot be assigned a drive letter in Windows XP. You have to partition it first.
hopefully this will solve your problem. If creating a new partition does not assign a letter to your drive, then the enclosure is probably defective.
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Grujee
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« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2009, 11:26:11 AM » |
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FYI Hard Drive is not new. It has already been partitioned with two partitions. One is active and use to boot Windows Vista and other is used to store various data storage. It has almost 250GB data. I am interested in data recovery from such drive which is not showing up in my computer when connected using USB (may be through hard drive enclosure or through Cables to Go USB adaptor).
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Britec
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« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2009, 02:30:07 PM » |
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can you not put it inside another pc as a slave and see if the computer can see the drive?
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Grujee
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« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2009, 05:06:24 AM » |
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Its SATA 1TB, when connected to mobo using SATA cable, it works fine. But when trying to access as external HD for backup using HD enclosure, same PC says USB device found, but it is not initialized and does not gets a drive letter for exploring its contents.
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scotbears
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« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2009, 07:29:14 AM » |
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Mine is not a sata HDD but I had same problem, where i Know it was there but not coming up in windows explorer, I had to go into admin tools right click but no option to to change or add a drive letter i had to create partition follow wizard selected it as logical drive and drive letter was added resutling in me now seeing my drive in windows exporer.
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Britec
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« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2009, 07:35:25 AM » |
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Grujee give this a go see if it fixs your problem. Go to Control Panel=>Administrative Tools=>Computer Management. On the left panel, look for Disk Management and double-click. See if the external hard drive shows up on the right panel. If it is, then you want to remap it, because it is in conflict with another hard disk device. Right click it, and select Change Drive Letter and Paths
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