From: philo@privacy.net   
      
   On 12/13/2011 07:06 PM, Steve Urbach wrote:   
   > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:28:00 -0600, Pfsszxt@aol.com wrote:   
   >   
   >>    My XPPro machine (with all updates to date) does not recognize nor   
   >> make useable IDE external drives connected via USB port.   
   >>   How/where can I get USB drivers for USB attached IDE drives.   
   >>   
   >> I have 3 different vintage IDE drives none of which are readable   
   >> on my machine (the drives are good an I can hear them spinning)   
   > Once the drive (USB,SATA) is in a USB enclosure, all OS consider it a USB   
   > (removable) drive.   
   > USB drives do not normally need 3rd party drivers on XP.   
   > If the drive was formerly part of a RAID set, you may need to do some (??)   
   > tricks to reformat. (Some disk utilities still show one of my, now USB   
   drives,   
   > as part of a RAID set. It was a part of a (broken) Mirror set, so it works.   
   >   
   > So the big question: Does any USB storage wok on your system in that port?   
   >   
   > BTW your drive can NOT be jumpered as SLAVE. CS or Master only   
      
      
      
   Also:   
      
   look in disk management   
      
   if the drives are not partitioned and formatted as NTFS or Fat   
   they will not show up in Windows explorer   
      
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