On 15/05/15 14:02, Chris Walker wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2015 13:43:25 +0100 Anthony Anson tony.anson@girolle.co.uk wrote:
Just bought a portable hard drive enclosure and USB2 connection cable. The cable has two large USB connectors at one end - the second of which has a much shorter and skinnier cable; and a mini connector at the enclosure end.
That will be for power.
My not-very-portable storage of similar type, but big, has only one USB connector per end of its cable.
I infer from this that the only one of the connectors at the pooter end should be (need be?) plugged in?
I don't think so.
The 500 GB HDD in the enclosure is SATA, as is the 160 GB one in the notebook. (because I had thought of installing things on the big one and puting it in the notebook...)
Anyway, I can't poke it into life. I get the rude message:
/Unable to mount location/
and underneath that:
/Can't mount file./
Where is the fault? Hardware? Me?
Take your pick ;-)
Plug both connectors in, the power one first, wait a couple of seconds and then plug in the USB data connector. Is it recognised now?
That's easy - tried it the other day: exactly the same error tile.