Hi Everyone,

My Compaq Presario 1701AP Notebook has a 30GB Toshiba MK3017GAP HDD and
came with Win ME 4.90.3000 pre-installed.

When I tried to use this HDD as a USB mass storage device in a 2.5" HD
External Case (USB to IDE case), the drive is not recognized by a host
system using Win XP Pro. When plugged in, USB Mass Storage Device
briefly appears under USB Controllers in Devie Manager, but later
vanishes and the drive is not detected. However, with the same HD case
and host computer, I was able to use another 2.5" HDD - indicating that
the host computer and the HD case were working fine.

Partition information of the Toshiba HDD are (Disk sizes in MB) :-

Local Disk (C: )
Fat 32 - Size 23063.90, Used 8150.10, Free 14913.80
Active, Primary

*
Extended, Size 5551.90, Used 5551.90, Free 0.00
None Primary

System_Sav (D
Fat32, Capacity 5544.50, Used 5100.80, Free 443.60
None, Logical

Fat (E
FAT, Size 7.4, Used 0.00, Free 7.3
None, Logical
(This was originally an unallocated space of 7.4MB showing as Primary
and a FAT partition as above was created subsequently)

I would be thankful for any advice as to how the Toshiba HDD can be
used as an external mass storage device, without losing its file
contents.

Thanks
Sam