Laptop Hard drive won't be recognized in desktop PC

[theguy88]

Hello, I have a laptop without a CDROM drive that I want to install xp on. I know you can do it by connecting the 2.5 laptop drive up to my desktop using a 2.5 to 3.5 converter. Ok well i bought a converter and I plug my hard drive in as a slave drive. The bios recognizes it, but when the computer starts up, the screen goes blank and it just hangs there. XP does not even boot on my desktop with the laptop drive plugged it. Well, ok then I tried to hook it up using my external usb controller. With xp already booted, when I plug in the usb drive is sees it as a usb storage device, but it does not appear in "my computer". Also, in the device manager it cannot detect any volumes on the laptop hard drive. I am puzzled as to whats going on here... Any advice would be excellent!

Thanks!

 

[theguy88]

I seem to have solved my own problem. I plugged it in via usb and setup as cable select, and windows detected it and gave it a drive letter! woohoo. Still don't know why it didn't work in the pc but oh well.