I recently purchased a new HP desktop computer with Vista and tried connecting a couple of old disk drives to it using a MegaVault enclosure with the USB cables but Vista didn't recognize that I had connected them. The old drives were created under XP and 2000. The hardware box says its Vista OS compatible. Any suggestions?
I have seen drives not recognized for a few reasons. Bad drives, drives not jumpered correctly or full-disk encryption was used on them. Here are my thoughts:
Try making sure that the drive is jumpered to Master. Should be a jumper on the back of the drive.
Make sure you did not encrypt the hard drive using full disk encryption.
I use an USB IDE drive enclosure when recovering customer's data using a Vista computer and have not had any issues other than the ones mentioned above.
Let us know if this helps or what you find out.
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