I have bought a laptop hard drive & encloser to make it external istalled it in to the encloser connected it to my computer but it did nont detect it i tried in a deffrent computer same problem, the driver came with the encloser is for win2000 & win98 it say that winxp should detect automatically but it hasent can any one suggest what to do.

Disconnect the drive, install drivers for the device on XP, connect the drive, and it should work. If it dosent it could be defective. Any other opinions? My Rig: 1040Mhz Pentium 3 OC'd at 1.2Ghz Aopen MX3WPRO-E mobo Intel 810 chipset Onboard Graphics Not sure how many MB 128mb RAM 120GB Maxtor Hard Drive My Old Rig: AMD K6 400Mhz

no drivers required. in the cage its just a standard ide device. try it on a ide channel all by itself - no other devices on the cable. set the bios for that channel to auto or do a manual detect. question I have is why are you xfering the laptop drive to a pc? experiencing problems? Golly gee wilerkers everyone! Learn to Internet Search

I've got a similar issue with Win XP - basically the hard-drive is picked up on the USB port. Here's my thoughts. Basically Windows is ultra-crap. It's the most pathetic operating system available and also the most universally used. If you were to connect the hard-drive (IDE we're all presuming, and not SATA), to an Apple Mac, the Apple profiles the USB connection and then gets ready to set up a label for the drive; configure the partitions etc. Windows doesn't do this for me: no matter how many times I've been told "I don't need a driver disc", I've never been able to manage without one, and anytime I connect to the internet, every application I have, suddenly scrambles to tell Microsoft.com everything I've ever done with my computer. When I eventually get around to checking for new drivers, I get a message which goes like "Driver not found on the internet - please insert disc". It's enough to drive anyone hysterical :) Here's some simple steps to try: 1. If connecting via a hub, remove the hub and connect the hard-drive directly. It helps if the hard-drive is on. 2. Use the hardware scan to detect whether the USB is showing. This is the bit I've got to. 3. Control Panel>>Add Hardware>>Driver Disc might be worth a try. From there on, it's the blind leading the blind ;)