Why don't you use usb external drive enclosures? Those are designed for
what you want to do.
"Ehab" <Ehab@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>i am trying to connect two old seagate ide 80 gb hard drives ( barracuda
> 7200.7 and ST380020A ) to my dell inspiron 1300 laptop with windows vista
> home premium. i am using an ide to usb cable. first thing that happens
> when i
> connect either is that 'safely remove hardware' icon pops up in the system
> tray and then disappears after a few seconds. i managed to double-click it
> a
> few times before it disappears and go into the properties of the 'USB Mass
> Storage device' and at first it says this device is working properly, then
> the mouse pointer turns into an hour sign and the following msg replaces
> that
> : Currently, this hardware device is not connected to the computer. (Code
> 45)
>
> To fix this problem, reconnect this hardware device to the computer.
>
> Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft
> and
> to see if there is a solution available.
>
> it then disappears also from the Safely Remove Hardware popup box all
> together. the drives do not appear in my computer, device manager or
> computer
> management. i have rebooted many times, tried all the different jumper
> settings, and even deleted the INFCACHE1.inf file as mentioned in one of
> the
> newsgroups fixes i found after hours of googling. still i cannot seem to
> access the drives at all. any pointers to what im doing wrong ?? thanks in
> advance..