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western digital 500G USB
I have a WD 500G HD and when connected to the IDE works great. I have
movies on it about 300G full. The problem is when I try to attach it to an external USB case then plug that into the usb port the drive takes forever to come up and be detected and when it does will not display my data. It shows as a RAW drive with 0gigs used. Under disk management in Administrative tools it shows as health but will not show as NTFS. Its blank their. I don't want to format it again. Any ideas? |
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Hugh Sutherland wrote: I have a WD 500G HD and when connected to the IDE works great. I have movies on it about 300G full. The problem is when I try to attach it to an external USB case then plug that into the usb port the drive takes forever to come up and be detected and when it does will not display my data. It shows as a RAW drive with 0gigs used. Whenever this happens, the first thing to try is change the drive selection setting from CS (Cable Select) to Master. However many WD drives have 2 master settings, one for when the drive is used alone, another for when it's the master drive and a slave drive is present. |
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Hugh Sutherland wrote:
I have a WD 500G HD and when connected to the IDE works great. I have movies on it about 300G full. The problem is when I try to attach it to an external USB case then plug that into the usb port the drive takes forever to come up and be detected and when it does will not display my data. It shows as a RAW drive with 0gigs used. Under disk management in Administrative tools it shows as health but will not show as NTFS. Its blank their. I don't want to format it again. Any ideas? Try limiting interface speeds to 1.5Gbps. WD has know issues with USB-SATA bridges at SATA2 speeds. Arno |
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Arno wrote:
Try limiting interface speeds to 1.5Gbps. WD has know issues with USB-SATA bridges at SATA2 speeds. Hi, Arno. I think he said it's IDE. If it was SATA, putting the jumper on the drive to limit it to 1.5 could have fixed it. Sometimes the first external HD enclosure you try is not compatible with your motherboard chipset and you have to try another. I had one that was a problem until I got some drivers from the motherboard's support guys. Also I agree to check that the jumper on the drive is on Master. -- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org http://antiwar.com Iraq Veterans Against the War: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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Ed Light wrote:
Arno wrote: Try limiting interface speeds to 1.5Gbps. WD has know issues with USB-SATA bridges at SATA2 speeds. Hi, Arno. I think he said it's IDE. If it was SATA, putting the jumper on the drive to limit it to 1.5 could have fixed it. You are right. My mistake. - Arno Sometimes the first external HD enclosure you try is not compatible with your motherboard chipset and you have to try another. I had one that was a problem until I got some drivers from the motherboard's support guys. Also I agree to check that the jumper on the drive is on Master. -- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org http://antiwar.com Iraq Veterans Against the War: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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western digital 500G USB
I tried changing the jumpers from CS to MSTR to SLAVE etc the only
difference is sometime in device manager it comes up as GERNERIC VOID USB DEVICE and sometimes as GENERIC USB DISK USB DEVICE. Either way it shows up as RAW with nothing on it (when it does show up in MY COMPUTER) and I know their is data on it. Why would the EXT closure not support NTFS since FAT32 only goes no highter then 32GIG. TODAYS HD's are all NTFS so todays USB enclosures should support NTFS. Why would the external usb housing only support up to 320GIG and not higher? "Hugh Sutherland" wrote in message ... I have a WD 500G HD and when connected to the IDE works great. I have movies on it about 300G full. The problem is when I try to attach it to an external USB case then plug that into the usb port the drive takes forever to come up and be detected and when it does will not display my data. It shows as a RAW drive with 0gigs used. Under disk management in Administrative tools it shows as health but will not show as NTFS. Its blank their. I don't want to format it again. Any ideas? |
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On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 19:44:09 -0400, "Hugh Sutherland"
wrote: I tried changing the jumpers from CS to MSTR to SLAVE etc the only difference is sometime in device manager it comes up as GERNERIC VOID USB DEVICE and sometimes as GENERIC USB DISK USB DEVICE. Either way it shows up as RAW with nothing on it (when it does show up in MY COMPUTER) and I know their is data on it. Why would the EXT closure not support NTFS since FAT32 only goes no highter then 32GIG. TODAYS HD's are all NTFS so todays USB enclosures should support NTFS. Why would the external usb housing only support up to 320GIG and not higher? "Hugh Sutherland" wrote in message ... I have a WD 500G HD and when connected to the IDE works great. I have movies on it about 300G full. The problem is when I try to attach it to an external USB case then plug that into the usb port the drive takes forever to come up and be detected and when it does will not display my data. It shows as a RAW drive with 0gigs used. Under disk management in Administrative tools it shows as health but will not show as NTFS. Its blank their. I don't want to format it again. Any ideas? In the past, I've run into enclosures where the IDE - USB bridge chip wouldn't support drives larger than 120 GB (or maybe it was 137GB). I suspect that was due to the 28-bit LBA addressing limit that also affected older PC ATA interfaces. |
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