Vista - HHD Enclosure with Vista 64 and eSata

I'm running vista home premium 64 bit on a Toshiba satellite A300 PCAGCA. I have recently purchased a Amicore "Philips" 3.5 sata enclosure model SDE 5170BC. I have fitted this enclosure with a 750 Gb WD barracuda HHD model ST3750528AS
The system recognises the drive when is plugged into the USB 2.0 but not when it plugged into the eSata port.

Does anyone have any idea how I can connect to the eSata port?
Regards,
Peter

is it sata 1 or 2? What is your internal drive? 1 or 2?

Both drives are sata 2

hello:

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peace

Thanks for the link, unfortunately, I it did not help. The HDD is in an enclosure with USB and eSata ports. I can get the laptop to "see" the drive with a USB cable but when I use the eSata to eSata cable to my eSata port on the laptop the drive is not recognised in the device manager or disk manager. I have updated the bios searched for and installed all the latest drivers using Driver Detective. Still no joy.

Regards
Peter

I have resolved this problem; it turned out it was a hardware issue. Once I replaced the enclosure with a new one (same model) the drive worked fine on both USB and eSata.

There is an additional problem with this model of enclosure. Even thought there is an eSata port the size of the hole in the back is too small to allow the cable to seat correctly in the eSata port (I had to enlarge this to make it work).

Philips are apparently aware of the problem because they market it as a USB interface and make no mention of the eSata port anywhere on the box.
Regards
Peter