External Drive - Windows 10

Hi guys

So got a new PC with Windows 10, on the old PC I had 2 drives - C drive for Program Files, Windows etc then another one for all the family data (photos, music, work docs etc). Put the family data drive into an external drive box and have connected it via USB to the new PC but it doesnt detect it fully. When I plug it in and turn it on the computer makes a noise to detect its there and in "My Computer" it flashes up for literally half a second then goes again. I've tried running troubleshoot on the drives which they "fixed" the problem it had found but still isnt detecting.

Any ideas please?

 

Try plugging the "drive box" into a different USB port on your computer. If it still doesn't show, it could be the USB cable or the interface board inside the "drive box" (I presume by "drive box" you actually mean enclosure).

 

this is one of those things that "just should have worked"
so my first thought is that there is something wrong with the external drive box.
bare usb drive adapters are relatively cheap. i would get one of those and try again.
the only times i had problems with putting hard drives in external enclosures...
were with the older IDE hard drives, where you had to make sure that the jumper settings
on the hard drive were correct... and that depended on the IDE hard drive manufacturer.
the jumper settings had to be "master" or single drive only for it to work properly.
if your computer was that old, that 2nd hard drive might have been slaved,
so you would have to change the jumper settings to master.
good luck with it.

 

What power source?

 

Hi there

Have used 3 different cables and still the same problem

 

The drive is fairly old tbh. Not sure if it was a slave drive or not though, I had 2 drives on the old PC - one for start up (C drive) then the private drive (F drive) for photos, music etc which is the one I'm trying to connect again via external link

Not sure I want to make that the master drive, as I presume the PC will then use that drive for start up? Or am I getting the wrong idea?

Cheers

 

that depends if the hard drive interface is old style IDE PATA or the newfangled SATA interface.
if the hard drive is SATA, then there is nothing to configure.
IDE drives have jumper settings, usually next to the power connection, with instruction labels identifying how to jumper the pins as master/slave/etc. the pin outs on the back of the hard drive are very different from IDE and SATA.
good luck with it.

 

Have you tried putting the raw drive into a different USB enclosure?