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External HD Enclosure - recognition?
I have an Inspiron 8200 (Windows XP) and docking station. I bought a Speeze 3.5" USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure that also has a firewire connection and I inserted a Seagate 80GB HD. I connected it with the USB and the computer will not recognize it. The Seagate install software cannot find the drive. The enclosure came with a Windows 98 driver only; it also came with a firewire connector, but the plug is too big for the 1394 opening on the side of the laptop.
Any suggestions? I could try to format the HD on a PC first, but I doubt that will help.....
mattcowger
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March 31st, 2004 15:00
hooverjo
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March 31st, 2004 17:00
Hi,
Thanks for your suggestion. I took the unit up to my trusty Dell Dimension R350 (a bit souped up), plugged it into a USB 2.0 port (PCI), XP recognized it, and I used the Seagate installation CD to prep the Seagate drive. I came back to my laptop/docking station, and it recognized the external unitw/o any further set up. I dunno what happened, but I am not futzing with it. Thank you.
John
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April 1st, 2004 05:00
USing the firewire connection the drive will perform about 20% better than the USB 2.0 connection. To use firewire you need a 6 to 4 pin cable or converter