ide hard drive using usb - vista

Hi,
I have posted this on other forum too.

Here is C&P,

I'm hooking up an IDE drive. I'm using one of those external USB kits ( Sebernet USB-DSC5 )- it's a usb to IDE cable and a power supply for the drive.
It works great in XP, shows right up in 'my computer' and I got some files off it. It's formatted NTFS and worked in this same PC as an internal drive.

Vista (my vista 32 Desktop) loads up some drivers and tells me it's ready to use a 'usb mass storage device' but it does not show up in 'my computer'.

It shows up in device manager under disk drives, usb drive and is 'working correctly and it shows up in 'computer management' where it tells me the drive has not been 'initialized' but it can't initialize it. The message says "the device is not ready "

How i will be able to see and use it to transfer data using either 'my computer' OR 'window explorer'.

Thanks in advance.

Answer from someone on that forum:

Open an explorer window, and right-click "My Computer ", then select "Manage "

On the left-hand side, you'll find "Storage" and under that will be, among other things, "Disk Management" ... select that.

This will show your drives and partitions. This looked very familiar to me, but I can't remember the reason I had to be out there before, maybe next time I'll remember how to get there quicker!

In the upper part of the right-hand display, right-click the USB drive you have installed, then select "Change Drive Letter and Paths... "

On the dialog that comes up, select "Change..." then select your drive letter of choice from the combo box and press OK.

You'll get a warning message, but that's just in case you are changing the drive letter of a disk that you have software installed to, so press "Yes" on that dialog. You are back to the Disk Management dialog now, and your newly selected drive letter is showing for your USB drive. Close this dialog, and you're done.

If you now uninstall the USB drive, and then reinstall it, it will come back up as the same drive letter as you assigned. As I was typing this, I reassigned two USB drives, one as drive O: and one as drive Q:, and both come alive at their designated drive letters, which are the same as the drive letters I have assigned them as at home, so life is now back in balance

My Reply:

"In the upper part of the right-hand display, right-click the USB drive you have installed, then select "Change Drive Letter and Paths... "

I can not see any usb drive in upper part of the right-hand display.
File attached. ( 3 drive in the upper part is partition of my sata single drive )

{ i am unable to attach the file here at BBS. Sorry!!!!1 }

I see USB drive only on the bottom half.

Which i can not initialize. The message says "the device is not ready "

Thaks for the reply.

Have google search about this for few days. Can not able to solve the problem. If i will connect the same drive to my XP, i can see it right away.

http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...ces/895398.htm

In my BIOS, I have "RAID" on. If i change it to autodetect, my dell will not even boot. So i can not able to try that option.

Will keep trying to learn.

 

miyadad, you have double posted (posted in two forums). You can see you have to explain what is happening in the other forum. We actively stop double posts. It becomes confusing.

I have closed this thread. If you think that your other thread isn't in the correct forum, just make a request to have it moved.

Matt

 

It appears you are posting to an outside forum. It is still just as confusing.

Matt