incompatible with win7

[reddevil157]

Took a 2.5 hdd from an old lappy, got an external enclosure, worked great on an XP lappy that has now gone to lappy heaven. Hdd is only compatible with XP, do I need another comp with XP or is there anything I can do to get it to work with win7. Not too technical please .

[dasteph]

Took a 2.5 hdd from an old lappy, got an external enclosure, worked great on an XP lappy that has now gone to lappy heaven. Hdd is only compatible with XP, do I need another comp with XP or is there anything I can do to get it to work with win7. Not too technical please .

are you sure the hd has not gone to heaven as you should be able to access the drive with any o/s, recheck all your connections in the enclosure including power supply.

[racin-snake]

maybe the hd is ide
i think win 7 may only be comfy with a sata drive ?
not as an expert but just a passing thought

[dasteph]

maybe the hd is ide
i think win 7 may only be comfy with a sata drive ?
not as an expert but just a passing thought

its in an enclosure so it would be usb to to his present pc, i have put a ide hd in a pc that runs 7 with xp loaded so files could be saved before a format of the drive without a problem, my present pc uses 7 installed on a ide drive.

[reddevil157]

Thank's for the replies guy's, Racin, it is IDE , Dasteph, tried it with another USB and it's working fine on my Win7, thank's again.
Red.

[lexxspam]

on windows 7 go control panel administrative tools in list click on disk mangememnt from here your see what drives are plug into the computer an in what format (do not know what win7 your on ) could be will only read in ntfs may need to format drive to that for it too work

[DW190]

Win 7 also needs a minimum of 1gb ram

[reddevil157]

Got it working guy's thanks.
Red.