I have a Seagate 300 gig HD bought new a few weeks ago. At the computer show yesterday I bought an external HD enclosure. I installed the HD in the enclosure and either of my systems will read it. The new enclosure supports drives over 137 gigs. I took a 200 gig drive out of another enclosure and put it in the one and it works fine. I installed the drive in one of my systems as a second hard drive, formatted it and it also works fine. So, the drive is good, the new enclosure is good and works with drives >137 gigs. I have 5 of these enclosures and have never had a problem. This is however the first Seagate drive I've put in one. Could it be Seagate drives just don't like to live outside the computer ? Seagate makes a 500 gig external drive. Any Ideas ?
Should have read "neither system would read it.
I installed it as a second drive and formatted it, put it back in the external enclosure and neither system reads it. The first time it was hooked up to both systems I got the found new hardware, USB mass storage device but it will not read the drive. I go into my computer and there is nothing there.
i bought a cheap HDD enclosure and tried to use it on my laptop. i tried to put in a maxtor drive and 2 seagate drives (separately). the maxtor drive worked fine, but the seagate drives will HANG my laptop immediately when i plug in the USB cable, no matter what the jumper settings. the only way i could get the seagate drives to work is to reboot the laptop with everything attached (USB cables etc) and the enclosure switched on. so it seems like seagate drives can live outside the computer, but it can't be hot-pluggable???
