Storage Solutions IDE HDD in USB external casing not getting recognized

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singenaadam

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I have a 250GB IDE HDD. Recently I had upgraded my PC. This was my system drive (XP + & dual boot : was working perfectly).

Since the B75 does not have a IDE provision, I slipped this in an external casing with USB. But when I hook it to the new PC, the HDD is not getting recognized.

It is OK on my older laptop, but on the new PC (B75+i3+Win7 64bit) it is not showing up at all. Tried Easus, Paragon and Partion Manager. In the last one it showed up as a "bad disk".

Has anyone tried this type of connector : Enter 2 in 1 IDE to SATA / SATA 2 IDE Adapter Converter ? Do they work??

Thanks for your time!
 
This is probably an issue with the case. During the boot sequence you should be able to see the USB drive enumerated just before the OS load screen. Cheap IDE cases have major issues, specially those available in corner stores. I had one of them nearly take out two of my drives.

Look at problem devices in Windows' Device Manager. If you can't see the case *view->devices by connection* or see a problem in driver installation, you'll have to use a converter or IDE card internally.

You could always sell the drive if you're unable to use it. I was (past tense) looking for one to be a NAS system drive (old motherboards usually have an IDE port or two), but I worked out an alternate solution.
 
Try using ide to sata converter it works fine, external cases like yours mostly ve problem powering up the drive, try using one of the cables from psu to pwr it up and use rest of the external case as it is.
 
I formatted it using the laptop.

Tried the IDE<>SATA converter. Somehow with that setup too, it is not recognizing. Will try once again in a few days & give feedback.
 
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