computer/hard drive help please

[felipe]

He is using it in a USB slot so the pins will make no difference.  I don't think laptop HDDs have them anyway. I did the same and bought a USB docker for a laptop HDD.  It works great without doing anything.  Windows 7 identifies it simply as an external storage device much like any other uSB device.  It usually automatically gives it a drive letter of L.  This is because I have 8 USB ports and 3 card reader ports.

It may be worth checking the HDD in your PC to make sure that it is set to MASTER with the pin connector on the back of it.

[Alerick]

Hi
As hotphot said,, if both the hard drives are on the same cable,,your main hdd needs to be pinned as master and the second hdd need to be pinned as slave..
So you need to look at the hdd and move the jumper to the slave position,,that should cure your problem..

[hotphot]

Did you change the pins at the back of the drive to change from master to slave?

[freddy4dogs]

Hi I have used a program called EaseUS partition master before, easy to use and free to download, this may be able to help you

[compton]

Sent a PM

[Roller]

Go and see Trevor Spencer at the computer club, Friday mornings at Bar Jacks, Albox

[horsey]

Hi all you computer buffs. I have recently removed a hard drive (about 200gb) from an old laptop to use as a backup drive in a usb enclousure. I thought this would be straightforward but alas no as it reads as disk 1 in disk management but I cannot format or repartition it. Any ideas please?

thanks in advance