Removable caddy and harddrives

mfx

mfx

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Hi need some help and i am perplexed by the issue in Windows7x64 Ultimate.

I have a USB hard drive caddy. Install the hard drive (on cable select and master have tried both) but Windows7 will not initialize any of the drives.

BIOS sees the drives.
Windows Disk Management sees the drives.

Step by step :

Boot up machine.
Windows (in OS or WDM) I get a pop up :

Initialize disk. You must initialize a disk before Logical Disk Manager can access it.

Disk 4 has a tick by it.

Use the following Partition style for selected disk :
MBR or GPT(GUID)
I select MBR and have tried GPT (dont uunderstand what the latter is).
Press OK.

Get VIRTUAL DISK MANAGER ''The device is not ready'

Any tips or things I can check please. The data on the disks are from XP 32 if that makes a difference.

I have checked in BIOS USB harddrive and as mentioned BIOS and windows is detecting it and I have different jumper settings on the HDs Master/slave/secondary.
Have tried several different USB cables and ports same issue.
Checked System Devices only yellow exclamation mark is ''Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface' Driver is upto date as verified. Properties shows this device cannot start? Is this relveant to my problem?


Many thanks

M
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
EVGA X55
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
CPU
i7920 2.66ghz
Motherboard
MSI
Memory
12gb Triple DDr
Graphics Card(s)
ATI HD4870
Sound Card
RME Fireface 800
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung 22" / Philips 17''
Screen Resolution
1650x1080
Hard Drives
OCX SSD Vertex2
Maxtor Raptor
Samsung
PSU
Silent 650w
Case
Custom designed SilentCase
Cooling
Air
Keyboard
Microsoft Digital Media Pro Keyboard
Mouse
Logitech
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I'm no Pro but try to learn quickly!
Is this an IDE drive enclosure? If it's SATA you don't need the jumpers at all.

If it IS an IDE enclosure, you may just need to right click on the left where it says the disk # and click "online" when you see it in disk management.

If it's a SATA enclosure, you may need to do the same thing (make it "online") to access it.

Good luck
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Keeps changing - (Custom)
OS
Windows 7 Professional x64
CPU
Intel Core i7 860
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4P
Memory
4GB DDR3 Mushkin 1600Mhz @ 7-8-7-20
Graphics Card(s)
MSI GTS250 1GB DDR3 Twin Frozr
Sound Card
Onboard realtek
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung SyncMaster 24" P2450 + Samsung 20" 2033
Screen Resolution
1920 X 1080 and 1600 X 900 (#2 system 1440 X 900)
Hard Drives
Patriot Inferno 120GB SSD + 3 WD Blue 640GB drives
PSU
Corsair 750 HX Modular
Case
Lancool PC-K62
Cooling
Cooler Master TX3 CPU cooler and 4-140mm and 1-120mm case
Keyboard
Gigabyte USB keyboard
Mouse
Microsoft wireless laser mouse 5000
Internet Speed
7 Mb down 1.5 up
Other Info
System #2: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (Freezer 7 Pro cooler) - Gigabyte 880GMA-UD2H - WD 500GB Black - 9500GT (1GB) 500W OCZ modular PSU - Antec 200 case. System #3 (LapTop) Core 2 Duo T6670 - 320GB 7200RPM HD - 4GB DDR3 RAM.
HI

It is a combo sata and ide...

The disk is online as mentioned when opening disk manager it autos popups the initialize window but device is not ready.
When pressing the offline option (as online is not showing) it says device is not ready.

grrr
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
EVGA X55
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
CPU
i7920 2.66ghz
Motherboard
MSI
Memory
12gb Triple DDr
Graphics Card(s)
ATI HD4870
Sound Card
RME Fireface 800
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung 22" / Philips 17''
Screen Resolution
1650x1080
Hard Drives
OCX SSD Vertex2
Maxtor Raptor
Samsung
PSU
Silent 650w
Case
Custom designed SilentCase
Cooling
Air
Keyboard
Microsoft Digital Media Pro Keyboard
Mouse
Logitech
Internet Speed
50MB Virgin
Other Info
I'm no Pro but try to learn quickly!
Do you need the data on the drive? You may be able to use a bootable disk tool to format and partition it to see if that makes a difference. It really should work on CS.

Maybe the drive is gone. Have you tried connecting it to a motherboard header?
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Keeps changing - (Custom)
OS
Windows 7 Professional x64
CPU
Intel Core i7 860
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4P
Memory
4GB DDR3 Mushkin 1600Mhz @ 7-8-7-20
Graphics Card(s)
MSI GTS250 1GB DDR3 Twin Frozr
Sound Card
Onboard realtek
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung SyncMaster 24" P2450 + Samsung 20" 2033
Screen Resolution
1920 X 1080 and 1600 X 900 (#2 system 1440 X 900)
Hard Drives
Patriot Inferno 120GB SSD + 3 WD Blue 640GB drives
PSU
Corsair 750 HX Modular
Case
Lancool PC-K62
Cooling
Cooler Master TX3 CPU cooler and 4-140mm and 1-120mm case
Keyboard
Gigabyte USB keyboard
Mouse
Microsoft wireless laser mouse 5000
Internet Speed
7 Mb down 1.5 up
Other Info
System #2: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (Freezer 7 Pro cooler) - Gigabyte 880GMA-UD2H - WD 500GB Black - 9500GT (1GB) 500W OCZ modular PSU - Antec 200 case. System #3 (LapTop) Core 2 Duo T6670 - 320GB 7200RPM HD - 4GB DDR3 RAM.
No the drives are fine and yes i need the data - have tried several drives which all work on my XP rig

It is definately and issue with Windows7! :(
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
EVGA X55
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
CPU
i7920 2.66ghz
Motherboard
MSI
Memory
12gb Triple DDr
Graphics Card(s)
ATI HD4870
Sound Card
RME Fireface 800
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung 22" / Philips 17''
Screen Resolution
1650x1080
Hard Drives
OCX SSD Vertex2
Maxtor Raptor
Samsung
PSU
Silent 650w
Case
Custom designed SilentCase
Cooling
Air
Keyboard
Microsoft Digital Media Pro Keyboard
Mouse
Logitech
Internet Speed
50MB Virgin
Other Info
I'm no Pro but try to learn quickly!
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