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Can't accsess some of my harddrives.

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I have bought a external cabinet to get access to my old IDE HDs.

Some of the disc's came up when i attach the drive to the computer. But a few of my disc's dont. I can hear the drive spinning around, but no drive appear on my screen.

Why?

Capron
May 27 '11 #1
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The first thing I would do is locate a drive that is noticeably different from the other ones. Locate it physically in the shelf and on the computer. Unmount it, shut everything down, remove the drive, and then insert one of the ones that won't appear into that 'known good' slot of the shelf.

That will test to ensure the shelf connections are good.

If the drive still does not show, you can check the jumpers to ensure the drive is set to 'slave.'

Another possibility is that they were found, but not auto-mounted (if they are a format your current computer does not recognize). Are they all formatted similarly (fat16/32, ntfs, ext2/3, rieserfs, etc....)?
May 27 '11 #2

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