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External enclosure won't accept different hard drives
Hello, so to better understand my problem, I recently bought an HDD external enclosure for a hard drive that has some old family memories on it. I hooked it up, closed it and connected it to my Windows 10 laptop. My anti-virus scanned for problems, and there were no problems and I was able to access all of the family files. Then, I wanted to get some other files from my other laptops that were dead. So I took that hard drive out, and replaced it with the one I plan to get some more files off of. When I plugged it in, it didn't recognize it. It wouldn't even show up in Windows Explorer. I tried another hard drive, and it did the same thing. But when I plug back in my family files hard drive, it worked just fine. So do I have to have other external enclosures for this to recognize my other drives? Really need this fix, thank you.