Vista unable to recognize 1Tb Samsung in an Antec MX100

peteruk · 27 Sep 2009 at 02:11

Hey all!

In a bit of a storage pickle I could use some advice on.

Essentially, placed everything I wanted to keep from my desktop onto a blank 1tb HD inside it, then took it out and assembled it into my new MX100 enclosure. However, when I try the device on either my laptop or the original desktop, while recognizing I have plugged in a USB Mass storage device, I cannot see any drives in My Computer. :confused:

Any ideas?

Ta for all posts

snowdog · 27 Sep 2009 at 02:16

Made a partition on it?

Got to disk manager and do a quick format of the new drive to generate an ntfs partition...

peteruk · 27 Sep 2009 at 02:28

snowdog said:
Made a partition on it?

Got to disk manager and do a quick format of the new drive to generate an ntfs partition...

Ahhhhhh! But surely I will lose everything on it that way? :eek:

I neglected to mention it came from an XP system (desktop) going to a Vista system (latop) if that's relevant.

snowdog · 27 Sep 2009 at 02:35

Oh, in that case I have no idea, I assumed you meant you had a new hdd and put in into your system while it had nothing on it, and forgot you need to make a partition...

What does disk manager say anyways ? Does the hdd show as unassigned space or not at all ?
I assume the hdd is in the list in the device manager ?

zetec452 · 27 Sep 2009 at 02:50

You will need to import the drive in disk manager I think.

copsey · 27 Sep 2009 at 09:24

yes, go to disk manager (right click my computer, select manage, go to disk management)
you'll see the new drive but it isn't assigned a drive letter, right click and assign a drive letter and it'll show up. Don't format it!!

rpstewart · 27 Sep 2009 at 09:29

Was the drive formatted as a dynamic disk under XP? If so you're in trouble - a) only Vista Business or Ultimate support dynamic disks at all and b) you can't use a dynamic disk as an external device under any version of Vista.

peteruk · 27 Sep 2009 at 09:53

rpstewart said:
Was the drive formatted as a dynamic disk under XP? If so you're in trouble - a) only Vista Business or Ultimate support dynamic disks at all and b) you can't use a dynamic disk as an external device under any version of Vista.

This.

It states it's a dynamic disc and as a result the drive's 'invalid'. There is a 'covert to basic' button but I can't be sure if it'll format it or not.

I'm guessing my best bet is to put everything back on to my desktop, format the drive as a basic disc then load everything back on again?

Bad times.

rpstewart · 27 Sep 2009 at 11:08

Convert to Basic will format the drive. If you want any data off it then it'll need to go back into the desktop.