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I'm in danger of hijacking this thread but will try not to. [hijack] OP might not be the only one. Several or all of my 2.5" IDE/PATA drives in usb2 enclosures written on 32 bit XP work fine on XP and 32 bit Linux on the same laptop. They are not detected on Windows 10 at all, nor in Live Linux session on a 64 bit laptop. No new device connected sound, no blinking of any handshake, nothing. They don't exist. [/hijack end] ----------------------- Edit: I just read a bit more of this thread. I will likely start a new thread because my configuration is different in that I do not use any IDE adapter.
It's embarassing. I'm an idiot. I was plugging them into a hub which I thought was powered and it was not. Too many hubs here and loose wire on the floor Drives work perfectly. Including the original HDD that I can put back into XP if I want to boot the old XP home unused in 8 years :) VERY sorry to have interrupted this thread. ------------------------------ Can a moderator delete both of my posts to keep this thread clean, please.
If you would have told which motherboard you have, then we would not have asked you several times to install the HDD's in the PC.
And how do you know the HDD's are not SATA interface?
Notebook HDD's are normally since years not IDE anymore, they have all SATA or as newest interface M2.
Maybe it would help us more if you would tell us the name of the mother board and the manufacturer/model name of your USB HD's
Cheers
Tom
Can you tell us the model of the Toshiba HDD?
The last time I heard of an IDE notebook drive was roughly 6 years ago, normally should be already SATA interface
Cheers
Tom