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musicistabest

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    Windows vista can't recognize external hard drive caddy
    « on: August 30, 2010, 06:57:38 PM »
    Hi everyone I have another problem :(

    A couple of months back I bought a External IDE hard drive caddy which is called Hi Point smart mobile storage. This afternoon it started giving me a problem, I went to switch it on and the computer would not recognize it but it will find it and display the hard drive as unallocated when I know the hard drive is in perfect condition and I have a lot of songs on it. But about 4-6 hours later I tried again and then it says it cannot load the driver software. IF this is any help as well there is a blue and red light on the caddy blue for power and red for hard disk activity the red light is always on it will not go off. I have tried lots of hard drives seagate, Maxtor, western digital and it still does the same. Please can you help. I hope it is not a hard drive problem.

    Also my punctuation is not very good I am sorry about that.

    David.

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    Re: Windows vista can't recognize external hard drive caddy
    « Reply #1 on: August 30, 2010, 08:02:52 PM »
    I'd say, you need a new enclosure.
    Similar thing happened to me and it was just dead/malfunctioning enclosure.

    musicistabest

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      Re: Windows vista can't recognize external hard drive caddy
      « Reply #2 on: August 31, 2010, 02:17:06 AM »
      OK thanks I am glad it is not a hard drive problem

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      Re: Windows vista can't recognize external hard drive caddy
      « Reply #3 on: August 31, 2010, 03:15:50 PM »
      You're welcome :)

      musicistabest

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        Re: Windows vista can't recognize external hard drive caddy
        « Reply #4 on: August 31, 2010, 03:35:15 PM »
         :) no problem I have ordered a better quality one than this