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My PC thinks portable hdd is a cd-rom drive, how can I fix this?

Asked by LeotCol (2275points) February 1st, 2010

I bought an external 1.8 inch enclosure for a hard drive online. I took the hard drive from my old mp3 and put in it. Fits perfectly and all that. Its a toshiba hard drive. The manufacturer said that this enclosure was for 1.8 inch toshiba drives.

But any time I try access the drive, my laptop thinks that its a CD drive and asks me to insert a disk.

Does anyone know how I can fix this? Or perhaps uninstall whatever drivers it found?

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njnyjobs's avatar

Change your device driver. If your enclosure came with a disc, use it to install the driver. If not, Google a driver for the enclosure.

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IchtheosaurusRex's avatar

Have you tried assigning it a different drive letter?

Plug in the device and let Windows recognize it.
Open Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management. Give it a drive letter like Y:, something closer to the end of the alphabet.

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running4ever5's avatar

uninstall the driver and then have device manager search for it and install the correct one

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