[invader]

I have a WD external HDD sitting around. It was the external that came with the older version of Shaw PVR's.

Anyway, I ordered an adapter for the esata to USB connection to use it on my PC. When I plugged it in I saw that windows was doing its thing installing a driver for it. It looked as if it completed however there is no drive showing up in my windows explorer.

I'm guessing I need a specific windows driver for the HDD to be discovered by Windows?

https://community.shaw.ca/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/102-1049-54-1081/pastedImage_1.png

This is the model number of the drive: WD10000F032

[TOPEC]

check control panel>computer management>disk management. if u see a Disk 1 or 2 that is greyed out with no drive letter right click and enable it

[invader]

Nothing shows up there.

So searching around on the web I cannot find anyone trying to do what I am doing here.

Is my next option to remove the HDD out of this unit and placing it into an enclosure then connecting it to my PC?

[invader]

Anyone?

[N.V.M.]

Before you do that, can you see it in Universal serial bus controllers in Device manager?

[N.V.M.]

Duplicate post....edited