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WIN 7 can't recognize IDE to USB external hard drive. Please help.
Hello Windows 7 Forum members,
For some reason my HP Laptop (Win 7 Home Premium) can't see/recognize my usb external hard drive (seagate). When I start/restart my computer and connected the usb cable into laptop, it shows the icon on bottom taskbar (safely remove hardware and when clicked on the usb icon, I see "open Devices & Printers and Eject USB to IDE bridge), but I can't see my drive at all when I click on "my computer"?
I can only see it under "right click Computer, Manage, Device Manger, Disk Drives," it only says; "generic USB Disk USB Device". And when I expanded the USB controllers via Device Manager, I can see it under USB Mass Storage Device. Sadly, I can't do much there/here unless Win 7 can see/recognize the drive under "My Computer".
<> HD is 40GB IDE Seagate (enclosure is PowerSpec 3.5 IDE to USB 2.0)
<> Drive is only storage for data, documents, pictures and softwares/programs, etc.
<> Drive is/was not formatted
Again, this drive was never formatted, only for storage purpose (i.e. pictures, documents, data, etc.). I can see it on my old computer when connected internal via IDE cable.
Please someone help me because I have a lot of my newborn daughter's pictures and my wife has a lot of important documents on the drive. All I want is to be able to see and open this drive again.
Thanks for your time and any help is greatly appreciated.