PeterG

The external hard drive has its own power supply. Upon connecting via USB the
PC picks it up and shows it as an extra hard drive in MyComputer. When
connecting via e sata the l.e.d on the mainboard lights up indicating a
connection is present but the PC does nothing. I have tried all the usual
tactics to get the PC to recognise the drive but to no avail. I even
installed the driver files supplied intended for 98 and before setups and
still nothing. It has me beat with my reasonable but limited technical
knowledge.
Peter G

"churin" wrote:

> PeterG wrote:
> > I have a problem I hope may be solvable with some help from others. My PC has
> > an e sata port on the rear and my external hard drive works fine on USB but
> > as soon as I connect to the e sata port the PC simply does not recognise its
> > existence at all. I have tried updating drivers, setting bios for e sata etc
> > all to no avail. Has anyone got a solution? I am running Vista Home Ultimate
> > 32bit with an MSI mainboard.
> With the extent of problem description as given, there are a number of
> possible causes. Let me ask questions:
> 1) Does the Device Manager show that the drivers are installed and
> indicate the device is working?
> 2) Is the external SATA HDD powered?
>
> I can think of more questions but please answer the above as a starter.
>
> churin
>