USB Hard Drive desktop drive to ATA?
I have a 40 GB Fujitsu 2.5 "portable disk, MHT2040AT model. I want to connect this unit to my desktop computer. I have to buy an adapter to plug right into my computer, but for some reason, the system BIOS Setuprecognizes as "Unknown Disk" I can not do anything with it. How can I make the drive usable? — I have two other hard drives, SATA (main windows of the unit) and IDB (backup). I want to install this drive to put Windows Vista on it. My Drive Configuration: SATA primary: Primary Master IDE Hard Drive: CD-ROM IDE primary slave: CD-ROM Secondary Master: Secondary slave hard disk **: unknown Unit ** —- How do I make it show as a hard drive? — I also bought an adapter ATA 2.5 " 3.5 "
USB bus itself is not reliable for use as a duct boot's fine with me as we speak, you should get a simple IDE ATAPI (the name of laptop sized IDE) adapter and make the drive on a laptop computer desktop. This adapter could be included with the IDE adapter USB full size. Fact that the purchase of 2.5 "redundant box.
How To install a SATA hard drive
