Need Help With Nexstar 3 external drive

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i have a nexstar 3 external hard drive enclosure with a new sata drive in it
but when i plug it all in and turn it on the drive is not recognized, its not showing
up in windows explorer?

WE shows my two internal drives, my two dvd drives, and it will show a
thumb drive when plugged in.

i have tried two different drives and neither one shows up.
does anyone have any idea of whats wrong here??
im running win vista if it matters.

thanks
 
SATA connection?
SATA depending on your controller/driver doesn't have very good hotplug support (some do, some don't). You may have to manually open device manager and initialize a scan for plug and play devices in order to get windows to detect them without a reboot. Or you could reboot with the drives connected and turned on.
 
a friend of mine sent me a hard drive last spring with some backup files i got from him and that worked just fine
so thats why i dont understand this not working?
 
Menelmarar said:
LOL, yes that too! Good catch.
"new sata drive"... you've got to partition/format it and assign drive letters.
Click to expand...

is this something that can be done in the device manager? if so, its not giving me
the option to do it. any ideas please??
 
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