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I just bought a USB enclosure (Nexxtech) for my old desktop hard drive (Seagate 120 gb). After installing the hard drive in the enclosure properly, I plug it into my laptop, and.. NOTHING.

I cannot make my laptop (Lenovo z61m) recognize the USB drive. It makes the sound that it makes when you plug in a USB device, then 20 or so seconds later it makes the sound that it makes when you remove a USB device. It's kind of a mocking sound actually And the hard drive within the enclosure runs for about a minute every 10 minutes or so, but still nothing happens.

When I plugged it in the first time, I got the popup that said new hardware detected, but that's never come up again. I've tried everything, restarting, unplugging, etc., and nothing works.

Can someone help?

2/13/2007 10:47:59 PM

are you sure you set the jumper(s) on the hdd right? if it was pulled from your desktop it would have been set master, I think the usb drive wants it to be slave

correct me if I'm wrong though

2/14/2007 12:33:12 AM

I set it to master originally, because that's what the USB enclosure's instructions told me to do. I changed it to "cable select" and I still have the same problem.

(Someone else suggested that to me too - they asked "which one is the master and which one is the slave?" I said, how the hell am I supposed to know, do I look like Abraham Lincoln? )

[Edited on February 14, 2007 at 1:13 AM. Reason : add]

2/14/2007 1:12:14 AM

Man! Did Dave and Juliet screw that mess up AGAIN??!

gosh their twins are so cute.

hey, are you running for office this year?

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oh, and i thought you were on a sabbatical! Hows the new job going? OH YEAH, I know, "you could tell me, but then you'd have to kill me!!!! " hahaha!!!



LOLLERS

so good to see you around again

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2/14/2007 1:58:33 AM

Haha, maybe he can make up some new imaginary friends that can fix computers.

2/14/2007 2:30:43 AM

Quote :

"OH YEAH, I know, "you could tell me, but then you'd have to kill me!!!! "

Eh, it would not be a requirement, just a bonus.

Update - I've come to the conclusion that Circuit City just sold me a crap enclosure; I tried it on another laptop and I get the same problem. And it's unlikely that the drive went completely bad in the 3 minutes it took me to move it from the desktop to the laptop.

Back to Circuit City. :damnit:

(PS - Old School and Tech Talk don't count as TWW because the people there actually make sense)

2/14/2007 4:14:18 AM

say hi to Dave, Juliet, and the twins.

2/14/2007 10:32:12 AM

How about the Lounge, you posted there as well? Good job sticking to convictions

2/14/2007 1:12:51 PM

The lounge post was worth it.

2/14/2007 3:45:30 PM

Fixed. The USB enclosure was bad. I bought a Mad Dog and it's fine.

2/14/2007 10:00:01 PM

gl with that when it fails in a few months

oh and it will fail

[Edited on February 15, 2007 at 12:35 AM. Reason : you may or may not lose your data]

2/15/2007 12:35:18 AM

i wouldn't buy anything with nexxtech on it

2/15/2007 12:37:17 PM

Quote :

"How about the Lounge, you posted there as well? Good job sticking to convictions"

why did you think that ol' Chuck had any convictions?

don't be silly.

2/15/2007 1:21:59 PM