Q: I own a Maxtor drive dead man and played around with it and after formatting it, his work again.
so I was a gamble, but it was still open, and tried a Western Digital drive I in the round had to. with the same jumper settings, Windows did not recognize (and I know that Western Digital is one internal).
so I was wondering if theres anything I can do this universal remote shell. anything common to all enclosures or something particular to the firmware in these Maxtor 5000DV shell?
thanks
Best Answer: Yes for standard desktop drive that is fine it's a 3.5 inch
A laptop drive would be 2.5 inch
Ok but the price is really ahhh…bad, the whole 160gb is only $11 more, The first one is an 80gb complete for the same as Best Buy, computer stuff is dirt cheap if you know where to go and can wait a couple days, well take a look
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLis…
Newegg is always the consensus online, I get a lot of stuff from them, TigerDirect and Computergate
Now the 2.5" dont come with a power supply so you need to have USB 2.0 to power them or get a 5 volt adapter or powered hub
The 3.5" come with the supply because the larger drives need the 12v for the spindle motor, (the smaller laptop motor uses 5v)
Here's just cases, you need a 3.5" IDE or ATAxxx….not a SATA
Figure about $19-20 for a nice one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLis…
Re:well it works 100% with the harddrive it came with. its just i cant get it to work with teh wd drive. nothing is recognized at all with the western digital drive in the enclosure. its as if nothing happened at all when i use it with the enclosure. but as soon as i change drives to teh 160 maxtor, its fine.
it might not be possible, im just curious if theres a way to make it work with all drives (for convenience).
thanks!
Re:Hmm. I'm not sure what jumper config that enclosure would require, but like jack pointed out, perhaps try all three – "cable select", "master", and for WD drives, "single".
When you plug the enclosure with the drive mounted in it into the PC, what happens? Does Windows' install a driver? Is there anything listed under Device Manager, if you view by connection? IOW, is the USB external enclosure being seen at all? That should be the first step in troubleshooting it I think.
You also mentioned that the drive that you got was "dead" – could it be,that the enclosure is what died, and not the drive inside?
Re:hehe, nohr, good point. ill format it tomrorow and try it, but shouldnt it at least be recognized in disk management?
and yea its using its respective jumper settings. thanks
Re:When you say "the same jumper settings", you don't mean jumpers in the same position do you? They are different on different brands.
Re:Hard drives do not come formatted because the manufacturer wouldn't know if you wanted FAT32, NTFS, Linux, etc.
Re:the wd drive is 80 gigs, but i realized that it was brand new, and that i hadnt formatted it yet. do drives come preformatted? ive never noticed… but regardless, shouldnt it have at least recognized? i even checked disk management in computer management in administrative tools.
thanks
Re:How big was the HD that you tried to put into the enclosure? From what I understand, Maxtor implemented their own pre-standard support for 48-bit LBA for the larger drives, and that those older Maxtor-branded enclosures therefore will only work with larger Maxtor HDs, and not other brands. As for HDs smaller than 120GB, I don't know, I would tend to assume that they should work, but if that's what you've tried, and the drive doesn't require 48-bit LBA addressing, then I don't know. Perhaps the enclosure's firmware specifically checks for a drive ID string containing Maxtor?
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