Hello, I bought a Newertech miniStack V2 hard drive enclosure a while a go and put an 80gig IDE maxtor hard drive in, worked flawlessly, recently figured I needed more space so I got myself a 500gig IDE Ultra ATA Seagate hard drive and the trouble started.
The computer doesn't see it, except once, I plugged it in and waited 20 minutes and it appeared in disk utility, but any options would just hang the program so I couldn't format it. Usually, the disk does not appear anywhere. If the enclosure is turned on and plugged in the computer while starting, the computer doesn't get passed the gray screen until I turn the enclosure off. I have a windows XP partition and I get the same problems with it. I tried going back to the old hard drive and this one still works perfectly, I also tried setting it in slave and master but with no success. I know a 500gig HD should work because people in forums have been using it.
You think the drive may be damaged ? What else could be tried ?
Thanks,
Francis.
The computer doesn't see it, except once, I plugged it in and waited 20 minutes and it appeared in disk utility, but any options would just hang the program so I couldn't format it. Usually, the disk does not appear anywhere. If the enclosure is turned on and plugged in the computer while starting, the computer doesn't get passed the gray screen until I turn the enclosure off. I have a windows XP partition and I get the same problems with it. I tried going back to the old hard drive and this one still works perfectly, I also tried setting it in slave and master but with no success. I know a 500gig HD should work because people in forums have been using it.
You think the drive may be damaged ? What else could be tried ?
Thanks,
Francis.