I did exactly the same thing with a Toshiba 30 GB Laptop HD and my
Desktop had no trouble reading and transferring the files. I
subsequently removed the partitions and reformatted as one NTFS
partition and now use it as storage. 30GB that fits in a shirt pocket. Cool.
I'm wondering if this is a power problem. Your laptop USB ports may not
have enough juice to drive the HD. See what happens if you attach it to
a Desktop computer, or a powered USB hub.
I suppose there's a possibility of drive overlay software as well, but
that seems unlikely to me.
Jim Lloyd wrote:
> I had a laptop with a failed motherboard (Operating system is Windows XP and the file type is NTFS) I removed the Toshiba HD and installed it into a USB HD enclosure made by Adaptec. I connected it to my HP laptop which also has an file type of NTFS therefore compatible and a Windows XP OS. The attached drive is recognized and I can view its properties but I cannot explore the file structure. It is not detected as a HD by my laptop. Under the control panel all I can do under computer management besides read the properties is to remove the partition. As I need to off load the valuable files I have on this disk I do not want to reformat the drive at this point. How do I safely get my laptopto properly identify this external drive so I might copy the files to the laptop?
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> If this is possible, what is best way then to convert this disk to just a pure data storage disk by removing the operating system that still probably resides on the external disk. (External disk is 40 G IBM Travelmaster and the laptop HD is Fujitsu. The used portion of the external disk including the OS is smaller than the unused size of the laptp so I am presuming all the files can be copied.
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> Any help is appreciated.
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