Computer expert in da house??

[bobleponge]

I had a laptop, it died. Wasn't the internal gubbins but the power supply business. I took out the hard drive and sent it to my mate, who bought a case to turn it into an external hard drive type thing.
He tested it on his lappy and it worked fine, however I now have it in my hand, and it wont work.
My computers (lappy and home desk top thing) both know there is something there, they make "that" sound when its connected/disconnected, but they dont "see" it.
I have a disk that comes with it, but it wont autorun, nor does it give me the right click option to autorun it.

Any ideas?
Would really love to get it working as there are photo's on there of my first granddaughter when she was only days old.
I know I could just send it back to my mate to download the pictures, but I would actually like to have an external hard drive anyway.

[piskieinboots]

ah there you are! really good to see you

Sorry, can't help with the HD issue

[HeyWayne]

How's it connected, USB?

I've a couple of external hard drives, both are connected via USB which usually make it easy to connect up.

I'd check with your mate to see how he's configured them.

[piskieinboots]

my external HD connects via USB - sometimes I have to reboot for them to find each other

[HotStuff]

Bob,

Best thing obviously would be to call your mate and ask him. But as I assume that's not possibe at the moment ...

Presumably you are connecting the external hard drive via a USB cable? And it's making the "dunk-dink" and "dink-dunk" noises when you plug and unplug it from your PC? Does the external HD have a separate power supply?

The disk that comes with it is most probably a drivers disk. If you go into Windows Explorer and click on that to look at it's contents is there something in there called "setup.exe"?

[bobleponge]

Ta for the advice all.
It was indeed making that noise Hotstuff, and it is connected by a USB cable, but in fact my computer wizardry was making itself apparent. There were 2 cables, both USB, one for data and the other one for ........


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Power.

Doh!!!!!!!!

[HeyWayne]

Odd - neither of mine need extra power, they both just have a USB and that's it.

Made me smile dude - I believe the phrase is 'lol'

[Bigmallly]

I have 2 external hard drives. One has mains power, one doesn't. The one that runs off the mains can be played through my USB port on the DVD player & TV but the HD that is powered via the PC USB cannot be played through the DVD player.

[piskieinboots]

Bobs - are you saying you didn't check the petrol?

[bobleponge]

Pisk,

I think my First Works Parade was fairly lax.

I have seen these HD thingys before, and they just had one lead, a data/USB thingy. Wasnt really sure why mine had 2, till I tried it.

[bishop]

click start, then click on my computer, this will tell you what drives are connected to your comp, eg floppy,local disc, cd/dvd drives, also external drives, right click on the drive then click on properties then click on autorun select ok, should then autorun your disc. hope this helps, what os are you using