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Accessing I hooked up a toshiba hdd2188 to a nexstar-3 enclosure. The light blinks as soon as I plug the usb cable in and then it stays on steady. But my computer will not even recongnize something has been plugged in. It was a laptop hard drive before. Could the hard drive it's self be no good?

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If you can get another hard drive and place it in the enclosure plug usb cable in then turn on the enclosure and see if this works if doesnt place it on another unit or pc and see if it accepts if it does then the usb drivers need to be re-installed goto my computer device manager and find usb it looks like a trident hilight this and click uninstall from menu list in properties then on the top of manager there will be a computer with a spyglass click on this and windows will find new devices let it continue then reboot then re-try enclosure if all goes well it will come up found new device. retry other hdd you first placed in enclosure if it dosen't feel hdd is turning the platters then get rid of hdd. hope this goes well

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