2.5" HARD DRIVE ENCLOSURE HELP

Hello I just bought a 320gb to upgrade my ps3 hard drive. I swapped it out and installed the PS3 60gb hard drive in an enclosure I bought off ebay. It powered up when I plugged it in through the usb and said it was installing the drivers and was ready to be used. It does not show up under my computer so I cant access it. Now everytime I plug it in I get a little icon on the bottom with a green check mark that says I can safely remove the product. What am I doing wrong?

I tried it on both my computers, a Sony Vaio laptop running Windows Vista and a HP desktop running windows 7 and got the same result. Any will help will be greatly appreciated

heres the link to the enclosure I got from ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=380212722960&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

 

Just guessing here, but the HDD might be formatted in a way that a regular PC cant read it with out formatting it. Just guessing though.

 

Ya thats what I thought but I tried the new 320gb hard drive in the enclosure first and had the same result. So im guessing thats not the problem thank you though. Also I was sitting here thinking, I cant find the original usb cord that came with it, would that have anything to do with it? I have tons of USB cords so I just used another one. I have tried more than 5 differnt ones and nothing. The original one if I can remember had the end that goes to the hard drive and the other end had two usb outputs that split.

 

The drive does need to be formatted, but I think there might be other issues, do this test quick and post the results:

1.) Plug in drive (USB or internal; it does not matter)
2.) open up the command prompt, type "diskpart" then "list disk"
3.) If you do not see the 60GB drive (about 55GB), then try switching to internal (or external if you stared internal)
3.) If you do see the 60GB drive, then you just need to format it, use the following commands (close diskpart first):

diskpart
select disk 1 (IMPORTANT: REPLACE THE 1 WITH WHATEVER NUMBER THE 60GB DRIVE IS)
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=FAT32
assign
exit
exit

 

I did these steps and got it to work, thanks for your help

 

Only one problem, I cant get the 60 gb hard drive to format in fat32 so the PS3 can read it. It only lets me do exfat and ntsf.

 

Thanks for the link ddp, I used fat32format to format the drive.

 

ps3 requires perfect harddisk

 

What do you mean by that?

 

Because it can crash hard from a read error that windows or linux would just note and work around. Also because the built-in "format" tool does not like to do a full format; it prefers to do a half-format that usually does not work, and the only way to force it to do a full format is to remove all traces of anything PS3 from the drive.