USB 2.0 to IDE/SATA Converter cable problem

[alkemy007]

I have an old Hard Drive that I backed up a lot of my music on but when I plug the converter cable from the Hard Drive into my laptop (I only want to transfer my files from the Hard Drive to my laptop) I hear the noise windows makes when it recognises something but the Hard Drive doesnt show up in My Computer (its a seagate 320 gig HD). Does anyone know how to fix this?.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Try assigning a drive letter to the seagate so windows 7 can recognize it. IMHO

 

[alkemy007]

Try assigning a drive letter to the seagate so windows 7 can recognize it. IMHO

How do I do that exactly. I know I must go to Disk Management. I get there and I see the HD (It shows up as disk 1-unknown-not initialized). When I try to initialize it (not sure if I have to do that) a box comes up saying Disk not ready.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Have you updated the seagate driver?
Will see if I can find one and get back to you!

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/

see if you can find your driver there!

 

[alkemy007]

Have you updated the seagate driver?
Will see if I can find one and get back to you!

Support | Seagate

see if you can find your driver there!

Checked on there. Seems as though the HD I have dont have no additional drivers. Hmmm. This is weird.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Read this post and pay particular attention to Brinks response in post #4
http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/39481-cant-change-hard-drive-letter-needed-letter.html

 

[palys20]

I have an old Hard Drive that I backed up a lot of my music on but when I plug the converter cable from the Hard Drive into my laptop (I only want to transfer my files from the Hard Drive to my laptop) I hear the noise windows makes when it recognises something but the Hard Drive doesnt show up in My Computer (its a seagate 320 gig HD). Does anyone know how to fix this?.

Im having the exact same problem, did you find a solution?????

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Take a look at this thread and make sure you both have it hooked up right.
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/134767-transend-usb-3-0-pci-card.html

post back and if necessary will get more help coming your way.

 

[palys20]

Hey, Ive tried all of than at....any other ideas?

 

[Dwarf]

Faulty interface? One of my older external HDDs would occasionally stop working or would only work intermittently. This problem was resolved by replacing the enclosure.