How can I convert a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (Model st380011a) to an external drive with usb?

SOURCE: Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 SATA driver problem

If the laptop is also XP, the drive should be recognized without problems. Sometimes this may not happen if the disk is unusually partitioned (could happen if you manually dual-booted it with Linux, for example). Verify the enclosure is working properly and has enough power supplied to, and that it appears in Device Manager. If all this applies, the enclosure must be considered working and the problem might be in the partitioning or disk access.

In XP Pro, do Start > Run Command > DISKMGMT.MSC and press OK. See whether the disk appears (if it doesn't, it's the enclosure, or its drivers - or the disk was dying and is now dead, but that's not very likely), select the NTFS or FAT32 partition - ignore any others - right click and mount the unit as drive, say, G.

If it doesn't work but the partition is found, you may need a more powerful tool such as Paragon Partition Manager.

See also here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B307889&x=12&y=12

SOURCE: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380011A "a disk read error occured"

I have ATA & IDE contacts in my Mother board, I install Barracuda 80Gb disk how IDE third disk, windows start normally in ATA disk. nice, The BIOS detect ok how master or slave, but the barracuda is impossible vacun with antivirus, a Recovery Diskcan not detect archives. I will to use FDISK, if don't recovery data, like recovery disk.