I just built a new system and I took my old HDD out. It is a 90 GB Hitachi, and I put it in a Venus DS3 enclosure. Here is the story:
1) The drive had 3 partitions, I wanted to make it 1.
2) I formatted all 3 existing partitions.
3) I used Disk Management to delete the existing partitions.
4) I rebooted, Windows recognizes that a USB device is connected, but it is "unknown". The drive no longer appears in Disk Management.
5) I've connected it both with firewire and USB 2.0, doesn't work either way.
6) I tried to reboot with the device still on but Windows won't get to the log in screen until I turn it off.
So, any ideas on how to get Windows Disk Management to see the device?
1) The drive had 3 partitions, I wanted to make it 1.
2) I formatted all 3 existing partitions.
3) I used Disk Management to delete the existing partitions.
4) I rebooted, Windows recognizes that a USB device is connected, but it is "unknown". The drive no longer appears in Disk Management.
5) I've connected it both with firewire and USB 2.0, doesn't work either way.
6) I tried to reboot with the device still on but Windows won't get to the log in screen until I turn it off.
So, any ideas on how to get Windows Disk Management to see the device?