Laptop external hdd not recognised

[axus]

Hi
I have bought a USB caddy to install an external HDD. on my laptop ( XP Pro )
Put in a Fujitsu 30gb HDD which it recognised. It then came up with " Hard drive ready to use " but there is no icon in My Computer for it.
Tried an old 2GB IBM HDD and it recognises that OK.
Any help appreciated thanks

 

[G0AOZ]

Check in Disk Management to see if XP thinks the drive is partitioned and formatted. It could be it just needs XP to allocate it a drive letter, which you can do manually. If you think there ought to be data on it but XP reckons it's not partitioned, then check the drive with a previously used system before attempting anything further under XP.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[axus]

Thanks for your reply. The external hard drive doesn't show in Disk Management, the only one there is the laptops main hard drive

 

[G0AOZ]

Is this a brand new drive, or has it been successfully used prior to putting in the USB caddy?

Check the drive is configured as a Master, single drive.

Do you have another system you can hook the drive and/or complete caddy assembly up to, to prove it is still operational?

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[axus]

It came in a bow of bits I bought.
I have put it in an old IBM 560, it comes up with a padlock with a 1 in it in the top left hand corner
Presumably that means the hard drive is password protected ?
Am I right in saying if that is the case, it is useless ???

 

[G0AOZ]

I'd have said the "padlock" icon relates to an access password for the IBM 560 rather than the disk itself, but I could be wrong...

Can you boot the IBM with a floppy boot disk (say Windows 98), with the file FDISK.EXE on it? If it boots to the A:\> prompt, try typing running FDISK and see if it 'ackles.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[axus]

Comes up with " NO FIXED DISK "
This old laptop loads OK with it's own hard drive

 

[G0AOZ]

Hmmm, sounds like that disk is destined to be a doorstop I'm afraid...

If the model is something like an MPG3307A* then it's similar to a whole series of Fujitsu's (mainly 10Gb and 20Gb) which suffered a rather short lifespan.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[axus]

Thanks anyway, much appreciated