When I eventually came to use the drive on my laptop again the only place I could see it was in devices/printers.
The TV formatted the drive to USB ATA/ATAPI bridge.
I used my external hard drive to record programs on my smart TV. This is not exactly the answer to your question, but it may help people using the search term USB to ATA/ATAPI bridge. Right Click on it and the contents will become view-able. Open Disk Management and the drive will be listed as offline. If no joy then, its off to Western Digital next to see if they have any information on this matter. Summary: using two (2) identical systems and a standard USB interface, the drive on the working system does not recognize the HDD from the failed system.Īt this point the new system is being Windows updated to determine whether the problem is a driver based problem. In Device Manager the Disk drives shown are: WDC WD50 WDWXG1ECONNA19 USB Device and WDC WD5000BPVT-75HXZT1 The old HDD connected to the point the new system sees a USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge, but no actual HDD is brought into the system.
Took the HDD out of the failed system and connected it to the new system using, first a Thermaltake USB Cradle, then second through a PLECTL002 device.īoth the old and new systems are running Windows 7 Home Premium OS. It shows up as a drive and the files and folders which are not locked are accessible through file manager. Its HDD is not the issue.Īttached the Drive to a CPQ laptop running Windows 7 Ultimate through the Thermaltake USB cradle and the drive is recognized. The old system had failed and would not boot, it's dead. Here's what occurred when replacing a Dell Inspiron 7110 system.