Just purchased a "NEWlink" USB to IDE adapter.  I have installed a 120GB drive in 
the unit, the drive is formatted NTFS and works fine attached directly to the PC. 
 However, W2K does not "see" the unit when I plug in the USB cable, and the only 
install sw included is for W98.  The unit has an external power supply, and seems 
to power up - at least the drive spins & the light comes on.  Is there any way to 
force W2K to access it, or can anyone suggest any diagnostics that I can run?  It 
might just be that the unit is faulty, I suppose.  BTW, I have tried this with known 
good cable and USB port.
Thanks!

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re: W2000 Does not see my USB drive Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 12:18 pm Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) Angus You may need to install the Enhanced Hub Controller b/4 the OS will see the USB device with the HD installed in it,with the hotfix from M$. Plus you may want to format the HD in two partitions . ------------------- You may want to read the links below. http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/1140906601 http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/1140903398 ------------------ How To enable Big Drives 48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/EN-US/ 10/19/2001 01:42 PM 5.0.2195.4529 86,768 Atapi.sys 04/19/2002 05:43 PM 214,938 Update.inf ---------------------------------- How to Enable IDE DMA Bus-Mastering Using SP2 Atapi.sys http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q158873/ ô¿ô DEX/Bj You can also help some one :>) Please revisit your post so that others on this forum will know if the solutions were helpful or not helpful . On Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 10:41 am, Angus wrote: >Just purchased a "NEWlink" USB to IDE adapter. I have installed a 120GB drive in >the unit, the drive is formatted NTFS and works fine attached directly to the PC. > However, W2K does not "see" the unit when I plug in the USB cable, and the only >install sw included is for W98. The unit has an external power supply, and seems >to power up - at least the drive spins & the light comes on. Is there any way to >force W2K to access it, or can anyone suggest any diagnostics that I can run? It >might just be that the unit is faulty, I suppose. BTW, I have tried this with known >good cable and USB port. >Thanks! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: W2000 Does not see my USB drive Sunday, March 5, 2006 at 11:06 am Posted by Angus (24 messages posted) DEX, Thanks, very useful post. Didn't understand the bit about "Enhanced Hub Controller" but I did check out the links you sent. While hunting around yesterday before posting I think I noticed this one which you sent: >http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/1140906601 ...but discarded it as not relevant as it seemed to be related to speed which wasn't my problem! The last bit of advice in this post - take out all USB devices, remove all drivers and reboot - seems to have been the cure for my problem; though it might have also been size related as the first time after reboot I plugged my adapter in with a 20GB drive. Anyway, my 120GB is now in the adapter and recognised fine. In case it is useful to anyone else, I was already at SP4 with all applicable updates. Thanks again... Angus On Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 12:18 pm, DEX wrote: >Angus >You may need to install the Enhanced Hub Controller b/4 the OS will see the USB device >with the HD installed in it,with the hotfix from M$. >Plus you may want to format the HD in two partitions . >------------------- >You may want to read the links below. >http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/1140906601 > >http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/1140903398 >------------------ >How To enable Big Drives > >48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000 > >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/EN-US/ > > >10/19/2001 01:42 PM 5.0.2195.4529 86,768 Atapi.sys >04/19/2002 05:43 PM 214,938 Update.inf >---------------------------------- >How to Enable IDE DMA Bus-Mastering Using SP2 Atapi.sys > >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q158873/ > > > > ô¿ô DEX/Bj > > You can also help some one :>) >Please revisit your post so that others on this forum will know if the solutions >were helpful or not helpful . [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: W2000 Does not see my USB drive Sunday, March 5, 2006 at 11:20 am Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) You're Welcome Angus Glad to see you got it up and running,yep sometimes it just needs to start from sq.1 one to find it and set it right. win2k likes to hold the IRQ's back sometimes and that's what it takes to get hardware up and running. But if you pull a device out win2k will rework the IRQ's and give all the devices a shot at them.(it likes to share IRQ 9 alot (on my pc's) and I'm not sure why) Have a good weekend mate ô¿ô DEX/Bj You can also help some one :>) Please revisit your post so that others on this forum will know if the solutions were helpful or not helpful . On Sunday, March 5, 2006 at 11:06 am, Angus wrote: >DEX, >Thanks, very useful post. > >Didn't understand the bit about "Enhanced Hub Controller" but I did check out the >links you sent. While hunting around yesterday before posting I think I noticed >this one which you sent: >http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/1140906601 >...but discarded it as not relevant as it seemed to be related to speed which wasn't >my problem! The last bit of advice in this post - take out all USB devices, remove >all drivers and reboot - seems to have been the cure for my problem; though it might >have also been size related as the first time after reboot I plugged my adapter in >with a 20GB drive. Anyway, my 120GB is now in the adapter and recognised fine. >In case it is useful to anyone else, I was already at SP4 with all applicable updates. >Thanks again... >Angus > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: W2000 Does not see my USB drive Thursday, March 9, 2006 at 8:19 am Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) Angus Just a add on snapshot you may want to read USB_FireWire ports.. Drive Compatibility Guide USB_Firewire http://www.wdc.com/en/library/2579-001151.pdf ô¿ô DEX/Bj You can also help some one :>) Please revisit your post so that others on this forum will know if the solutions were helpful or not helpful . On Sunday, March 5, 2006 at 11:20 am, DEX wrote: >You're Welcome Angus >Glad to see you got it up and running,yep sometimes it just needs to start from sq.1 >one to find it and set it right. > >win2k likes to hold the IRQ's back sometimes and that's what it takes to get hardware >up and running. >But if you pull a device out win2k will rework the IRQ's and give all the devices >a shot at them.(it likes to share IRQ 9 alot (on my pc's) and I'm not sure why) > >Have a good weekend mate > > > > > ô¿ô DEX/Bj > > You can also help some one :>) >Please revisit your post so that others on this forum will know if the solutions >were helpful or not helpful . 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