I have a new Dell home pc with Vista HP 32 bit. I am attempting to connect my old xp drive (in a NewLink IDE/SATA drive USB 2.o enclosure) to it – secondly to access some old data files, and firstly so that I can use it as a back up.
I think (!) I have extracted and inserted the drive correctly into the NewLink enclosure, attaching the 3 cables (IDE/SATA/power?). The LED lights are showing blue anyway.
However when I connect to the Vista pc, the device is shown as Drive 1 (USB Mass Storage Device), but the LED lights on the enclosure go red (?) and it is showing as not initialised – and when I try to do so via Disk Management, it says the device ‘is not ready’.
I have researched this (good old google!) and there seems to a fair few people who have experienced this – but I don’t seem able to pin down an actual answer.
Logic dictates either the old drive is dead / not connected to the enclosure correctly, or I need to do something to the vista pc to get it to format/convert/initialise the xp device.
The NewLink manual and website are less than helpful. The Microsoft site doesn’t seem to be very enlightening either.
Can anyone help?
