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Rocketfish Enclosure Issue

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by ehamm13, Jul 29, 2011.

  1. ehamm13

    ehamm13 Regular member

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    I have a 3.5 EIDE Enclosure for a WD 80G Caviar hard drive.
    It shows up in Disk Management, but will not let me issue a drive letter or path.
    Here is what it has as it:
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    I have data on it, but don't want to lose any.
    Any help?!
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    do you have an ide port in your pc?
     
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    No, I can only connect it via USB through the enclosure. But the enclosure supports it, but can't understand why it's showing up like this.
     
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    might be enclosure problen hd problem which is why i asked if you had an ide port. does any of your friends have an ide port in their pc's or an ide drive enclosure?
     
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    My EIDE Enclosure is working fine, the only problem is that the drive isn't recognized as any letter drive. I got the drive from an old XBOX. The drive was working fine before i transfered it to the enclosure.
     
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    i couldn't find anything. All of the links for the programs are dead.
    Most of them were doing the opposite of what I am trying to do.
    Seems that XP likes the enclosure more than Vista since it automatically recognized the drive. But still am having the issue of trying to access it as (F:)
     

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