Resolved USB Harddisk

I have an 80GB IDE Hitachi HD which was formatted NTFS on my computer running Win 7 Ultimate. My problem is that when connected to my computer via external Sharkoon Drive link USB adapter, it is not shown in Windows Explorer but is shown in Device Manager as USB Device and in Computer Management it is shown as "˜Disk 1 "“ Not initialized’ and when clicking on to initialize, an error shows as "˜This device not ready’. Same occurred on another PC running Vista Ultimate. Strangely, when connected to IDE inside PC it works perfectly. Can anyone help please?

ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 MB
500GB sata Hitachi HDD
2GB Ram
3.2GB CPU
Windows 7 Ultimate

 

Check the HDD with Drive Fitness Test. If it can't find or fix the problem, use Disk Manager to delete the partition, remake and format it.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

 

Tks Mattman, your suggestion worked fine. Regards