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by warriormage76

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I had an internal harddrive. when i got a new computer i bought an external case for it and made it into an external harddrive. but windows xp will not reconize it. In a nut shell it was internal and now its external and not working. i get unknown device when i hook it up. the external case is a VIO 3.5 external case. serial ATA. and its usb hook up with external pwr source

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by jmoody10

Can you tell me the exact drive model? If if is a ide Seagate 500 gb to a usb, I just had this problem. I had to go from ide to firewire.

by warriormage76

the external case is a VIO 3.5 external case. serial ATA. and its usb hook up with external pwr source

by bubbagump00

are u sure the drive sata? if so, are u using a sata bridge cable? i don't run an external sata but my understanding is that you need to run a bridge to get usb/ide layers abstracted to work with sata...i could be wrong though

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