What type of hard disk enclosure wll work for a 40 gig Seagate Barracuda ata IV drive?

Test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions,IDE,SATA

the leads from your ((motherboard to your hard drive)) make sure they have a secure dust free connections and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty

make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty ?

even something as small as an electrical extension or a faulty fan lead can cause this problem

a computer needs all of the data and electrical current to travel through every working device and to have an end to be able work properly

motherboard and a hard drive any leads between them will fail before your motherboard or your hard drive if its a flat ribbon 40 pin type IDE replace it this will be the first to fail check all electrical extensions make sure they are securely seated even the cd/dvd floppy drives need to have current go through make sure these drives are working

make sure your computer ram modules are securely seated with no dust in sockets also Cmos battery has charge with no dust in the socket

You do not need a driver, I suspect the Seagate hard drive may be faulty.
Try conncting your hard drive as a Slave drive in your computer, if the BIOS does not detect the hard drive then the hard drive is faulty.

im not sure what you mean this hard drive should fit into a computer without a need for any extra enclosures just the normal leads if you want any further assistance
http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1121,381,00.html
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You can purchase an "empty" disk-drive enclosure, and then "transplant" your current disk-drive into the new case. That should recover 100% of your data.

Take the old enclosure to the computer-store, so that they can sell you a "compatible" new enclosure.

Probably $20 to $40.

If I were you I would make sure your computer has no size barriers.. Some computer bios have
a maximum drive size that it will accept. Be sure to check this before purchasing. Of course you can always go with the same size 40GB, but your best move is to upgrade to a higher size.


Everyone has their opinion about vendors. If you ask me Drives fail just like any other device, so
get one with a good included warranty and back up your stuff. Look for speed and size and
make sure its the same I/O as your original.

MOST IMPORTANT : Verify your system can handle the size you wish to purchase

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you can check it on your hard drive, remove it and see.

Yes, other XP disks will work, but then you'll have to download the drivers for your HP, probably using another computer.

s cuase u r using ur hard disk with different mother board so u need to format it or u need to get teh mother board cd an dchange the boot sequence as cd-rom and run it