New
#11
hi and sorry about the delay, and thank you so much for your help
I would try uninstalling the USB device in Device Manager, immediately reboot, and allow Windows to reinstall the driver before I did anything else.
i just tried that, windows installed the same drivers
the one provided with the adapter:What are you using to power the IDE HD with a USB adapter ? Could be not enough power to the HD ?
here is the HDD model if u like to:Okay, that's the actual HDD model, not the controller. This has to to be a device driver issue I'm thinking.
when i right click as u said, i ve only proprieties and HelpUmmm... take a close look at the original images... not the colors of the partitions behind the error dialogs? The disk in question is neither partitioned nor formatted...
yes win xp is installed on it, not really sure about the file system, (certainly not FAT or FAT32)Are you saying win XP is installed on the 250GB IDE HD arealy with NTFS format ?
That looks similar to my power adapter, so that looks good.
Do you need the win XP stuf on the 250gb HD ?
Or would you like to clean it & start with an empty drive ?
It has to be NTFS then. The odd thing is that you shouldn't have to initialize the disk if there's already a partition on it though. Try this once, just to test something. Try setting the 250GB HDD as the first boot device, and see if your machine will boot into XP.
We'll go from there.
i do have important files on it but if have to i wouldn't mind to clean it because i still need it to store some files and free space on my laptop
my problem is that i have no PC at where i am now, only my laptop and that HDD
ok i will try thatIt has to be NTFS then. The odd thing is that you shouldn't have to initialize the disk if there's already a partition on it though. Try this once, just to test something. Try setting the 250GB HDD as the first boot device, and see if your machine will boot into XP.
We'll go from there.
Do you have any friends with XP or Vista computers that you could connect to to see it the files are accessable ? & could be move & saved to anoter drive?