Comments on: I put a new hard drive in a USB case but it will not show up in My Computer

By: Cathy

Cathy — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:42:18 +0000

Hello.

I would like to thank you for this very informative article. It helped me a lot. Again, thank you very much!

Printed this out for future reference.

By: Stefano

Stefano — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:51:39 +0000

I have a 4yo Tablet laptop running on XP tablet edition.
I.m running out of storage and its slower and slower.
I just bought a WD 160GB PATA drive and intend to Ghost the drive.
I installed Acronis TrueImage 11.
I installed the HD in a USB case and connected it.
The little pop up window said the new HD is ready for use, but I cannot see it in explorer.
The light on the USB case is on.
I followed your advice above, but it does not show in Control Panel -> Comp Management -> Disk Management.
Can you help me?
Cheers, Stefano

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:48:59 +0000

Hi my friend gave me a toshiba satellite a15-s127 and it won’t boot up. I was wondering if there might be something simple to do to fix this or do I need new parts for it? If so would you recomend upgrading the processor, ram, and hard drive? Could you tell me what you might upgrade them too.

Thanks Jon

By: Frances

Frances — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:02:09 +0000

I had this compaq v3011au for almost one year already. Recently it started to gave me a lot of problems. First and 2nd problem solved already but then now I had the 3rd one in 2 weeks after I got my laptop back from the service center for the faulty dvd drive. Suddenly, the laptop freeze when I was doing my work and I can’t move my mouse and forced to restart it by pressing the power button. Nothing came out after the restart, not even the compaq logo screen. When the hard disk light stopped flashes, the whole process is freeze, no matter whether is already boot into the windows or not. What is the exact problem here??

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:27:16 +0000

Peter,

if i use the tool provide by Hitachi i get 0×75 – Defective Device, component failure

Probably it is.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:27:45 +0000

I have a harddrive that i can’t format
I can read the data from the harddrive but i can’t format or create / delete partitions
if i try to load xp I get

UNABLE_TO_MOUNT_BOOT_VOLUME
but if i run a checkdisk, there are no faults or bad clusters if i use the tool provide by hitachi i get
0×75 – Defective Device, component failure
Is it really defective ? or is there something else wrong
It an aspire laptop

By: Andrew Z.

Andrew Z. — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:26:24 +0000

Hi there laptop freak

I got a pretty old laptop but i really want to keep it cuz its more confy for me to work on the bed ( im learning PHP ), than working on the rough chair that i use for my desktop PC. Ok, heres the deal when i got it it had everything but a usb ( duuhh! ) a cd rom , but it had the floppy ( wich didnt have the connection ribbon to the mainboard ) so i got a 2.5 to 3.5 adapter i mount it on my desktop and i does not show up in my computer ( i tried the disk management thing it does not work either ) it shows up in bios , i did format it in ms – dos , after i unplugged my primary hdd and i labeled it and stuff but all the wire combinations i tried nothing worked in there, so im pretty in a rush to make it work so if you could help me i’l appreciate it a lot

My laptop model is a Zenith Z-note 425ln with 25 mhz CPU , the hdd is a 200 mb seagate, 8 mb ram of memory
My desktop configuration is : 3000mhz athlon 64 , 512 mb ram memory, Nvidia 5700 128 ram memory, and a 160 gb sata hard drive ( sometimes i wonder if the SATA hdd is not the reason because of wich i cant see my laptop hdd in my computer anyway, ) and a asus dvd-rw

I hope i gave a good description for you , and i wait for you to reply.

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:01:31 +0000

Robert,
That’s strange, there shouldn’t be any problem when you replace a failed 30GB hard drive with a new 30GB hard drive. Can you see the new hard drive in the BIOS? Do you get any error messages when you run the restore?

Is there some kind of special software Toshiba puts on the hard drive for the system to recognize it? Some kind of “leader” software or system software? (which would not be on this new hard drive)

there is no special software on the old drive. When you replace a failed hard drive in this model, all you need is a new hard drive and original restore DVD/CD. You replace the drive, boot the laptop from the recovery DVD and follow the wizard. That’s it.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:56:25 +0000

Thanks for answering to me. I did go and buy a 30gb hard drive by Toshiba and put it in the Satellite laptop.
But I can’t get anything to load on it, even the original restore disk doesn’t find it.
Is there some kind of special software Toshiba puts on the hard drive for the system to recognoze it?
Some kind of “leader” software or system software? (which would not be on this new hard drive)
Many thanks!

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:57:12 +0000

Bobby,

I want to switch hard drives on my laptop because one is full. Is it possible to switch to one while still running your operating system from the other or not?

Sorry man, I cannot understand what you are asking me. Do you have two hard drives installed on your laptop or what? Give me more information please.