I looked on Google, and others are having trouble with this, too. Any chance you can reformat?
Having problems getting an external hard drive recognized within Windows 7 64 Bit
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Rip out the HDD and install it in your own enclosure...
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What kind of POS enclosure requires a "more sophisticated" disk manager?!?! LOL. Seriously!
Anyways, more sophisticated disk manager for Windows? That's probably not a good idea - that means that if you did find one, the external drive then becomes dependent on the 3rd party disk manager for use. You can try any of the partition tools ones listed with Hiren's BootCD and see if you have any luck.
Moving forward though, I would personally *really* rip out the HDD and use a third-party enclosure. Any USB device that doesn't conform to plug-n-play in Win7 is just asking for trouble in the long-term...
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Anyways, more sophisticated disk manager for Windows? That's probably not a good idea - that means that if you did find one, the external drive then becomes dependent on the 3rd party disk manager for use. You can try any of the partition tools ones listed with Hiren's BootCD and see if you have any luck.
Moving forward though, I would personally *really* rip out the HDD and use a third-party enclosure. Any USB device that doesn't conform to plug-n-play in Win7 is just asking for trouble in the long-term...
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BTW, is your device manager *still* showing "Mass Storage Controller"? It *could* be that the enclosure uses a proprietary controller integrated into the enclosure, which would require a driver disk from Simpletech. That would be a first for me...
I just remembered that I had a similar problem with a friend's hdd. I think it was a Simpletech too. The enclosure had somehow gone bad / got fried. The HDD was still somewhat readable, but the MBR or NTFS TOC was definitely corrupt somewhere. Took me 72 hours to recover the 250GB worth of data...
Anyways, just pennies for thought. What with Thanksgiving / Xmas sales on, save yourself the hassle and build yourself a new external
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I just remembered that I had a similar problem with a friend's hdd. I think it was a Simpletech too. The enclosure had somehow gone bad / got fried. The HDD was still somewhat readable, but the MBR or NTFS TOC was definitely corrupt somewhere. Took me 72 hours to recover the 250GB worth of data...
Anyways, just pennies for thought. What with Thanksgiving / Xmas sales on, save yourself the hassle and build yourself a new external
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Ahhhhh..... You left out the "Wii" part in your original post
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Everything's coming together now, lol. Let me think / look around, maybe get back to you in a bit...
Originally Posted by GH0  Why I need the third party disk manager is because it will be being used fluently with Windows and a Nintendo Wii. Problem is that it needs to be used with a file system that is not an open ideal. It is only used on the Nintendo Wii. I just need something that will allow me to set up the drive I need to, and Disk Manager does not let me do that. |
Everything's coming together now, lol. Let me think / look around, maybe get back to you in a bit...
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