reading a HDD in a Caddy

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If this is a USB attached HDD, it may not work and you'd need an eSATA enclosure.

serpentracer said:

oops sorry I didn't understand the question at first.

I thought you were wanting windows to access it. which it will not do usually. windows only likes to see other windows installs

Not quite true, Windows 7 can read/write to a HDD with only files on it if it has FAT32 or NTFS format, maybe FAT16, but I've not tested this.

Is it a USB caddy? Did you get any error like missing drivers?

wysiwyg49 said:

It is a SATA caddy, but being unable to read the HDD can't say what the format is,

Putting in a spare HDD it sees it and opens it.

So it can't be a windows type format.

wysiwyg49 said:

aem said:

Is it a USB caddy? Did you get any error like missing drivers?

Yes its a USB caddy, and no, no messages at all.

Sorry, that's a bit confusing.

Is the caddy connected via USB or eSATA? Not the HDD interface.