icy box - does it read ntfs drives?

xedarius

xedarius

xedarius

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Hi,

I recently bought an icy box enclosure in the hope of retrieving some data from a hdd.

When I attach the drive the icy box lights up, spins up and then spins down.

My drives are NTFS, I've tried searching high and low for answers on weather the icy box reads NTFS or not ... but i can't find any.

Anyone got any ideas? Also if it doesn't read NTFS do you know any hdd enclosures that do? Or is there a firmware upgrade.

My model is : Icy Box - Ib-362stus2-b


Thanks for any help

Rich
 
That Icybox is simply a caddie for the drive, it doesn't know and doesn't care how the drive inside it is formatted.

Are you sure the HDD itself is working correctly?
 
Are you sure it's just a simple caddy?

And no I'm not 100% the hdd's are working ... this is why I 'm trying to recover my data via a caddy. My PSU blew up and took down my motherboard and hdd's.

I've bought another hdd and swapped the logic board ... however the drive doesn't seem to work in the caddy.

I'm really hoping it's the caddy and not the drive.

The hdd does spin up and I can hear it accessing ... but it doesn't show up under My Computer ....

If I had anothe PC I could test it ... sadly I only have a mac laptop ...
 
xedarius said:
Are you sure it's just a simple caddy?
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Yes

xedarius said:
And no I'm not 100% the hdd's are working ... this is why I 'm trying to recover my data via a caddy. My PSU blew up and took down my motherboard and hdd's.

I've bought another hdd and swapped the logic board ... however the drive doesn't seem to work in the caddy.
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Given that I'd say it's the drive that's knackered.
 
Well maybe (obviously I can't completly let go of the fact that I can save my data).

However if it were a simple caddy then the drive would surely show up in the My computer section .. and when I tried to browse the drive it would tell me the drive was corrupt?

However the drive doesn't even turn up as a USB device ... making me think it tries to read the drive and fails because it doesn't understand NTFS ...

Also if you look at some of the more expensive icy box models they start introducing NTFS (read only) ... which also makes me think the cheaper versions don't support NTFS
 
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Right, stupid things first-
Right-click on My Computer==> Manage & go into Disk Management.
If you can see a drive without a drive letter in there, assign it one :)
Simply plugging the caddy in may not actually assign it a drive letter.

IIRC, if the drive works the Mac should see it too (Read only)- Simply plug it in.

-Leezer-
 
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