External Hard Drive Help Needed!!!!!

[kbrady487]

SO this past Christmas I was at home and bumped my external hard drive (ROCK brand) off my desk and it stopped working. I opened it up and found no solution so I began my quest for a new hard drive. I found one on eBay (ACOMDATA brand) that the seller sold for dirt cheap because it would not turn on due to a faulty enclosure (from the description it seemed as if the drive would be salvageable). I thought maybe I would be able to open up the new hard drive and remove it and connect it to my old hard drive enclosure.

Once I got the Acomdata hard drive I tried plugging it into my old enclosure and it sound like everything starts up but once I plug it in, the computer recognizes it in the "remove usb safely" icon in the lower right but it wont recognize the drive in My Computer.

Two questions for you guys:
1. Is there some way I can locate the drive and use it as intended as a storage device?
2. If I cant do that mean there is something wrong with the hard drive? Can I not use one brands hard drive on another brands enclosure? Should I look at buying a new enclosure from Acomdata? Any feed back would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[patio]

Right clik My Computer...select Manage...then Disk Management...
Does it show up there ? ?
If so right clik it and select Properties and report back with your findings...

[kbrady487]

It does show up, im assuming, it is the only thing listed. I right clicked on it my only 2 options were delete volume and help. The rest of the options were grayed out. any more suggestions?

[patio]

Properties was not listed ? ?

[kbrady487]

nope, just grayed out. any more suggestions? things I can do from this point forward???

[patio]

Try it on another machine.