I took the hard drive out of my Toshiba before destroying it, and put it into a hard drive enclosure. When I hook the USBs to my current laptop, nothing happens. How can I make it so that I can delete information off of it, and add information to it?|||OK first off did u check to see if the two are compatible with each other? Was your Toshiba a laptop or desktop? Have you checked to make sure the usb cables are good? Before you destroyed your Toshiba did you make sure that your hard drive was still working properly? That info would really help me answer your question. Hook it back up to your laptop and go to "my computer" or "computer" (depending if your using xp, vista or windows 7) It should have your current laptop hard drive listed as "local disk C" if the external drive is connected properly it will show up (if you are using windows 7) under your original drive "hard drive name E" for example. I use one with my laptop and have never had problems with it. Try hooking the external hard drive up to another computer and see if you can view your information there. If it still wont work you will need to format the external hard drive. Unfortunately you will loose the information you have if you have to format it. I hope that helps!|||Maybe the hard drive enclosure is not working (or the disk is dead). Normally, what *should* happen is: > you plug in the usb cable from the enclosure, > you PC detects it, > the PC automatically installs drivers and then you get a new drive letter (like maybe E: or F:) that you can see by opening up the Computer icon. If you don't see any additional drive letters in the Computer folder then something is not working right.|||EASY BUT WHAT VERSION WINDOWS ARE YOU USING? you haveto go into administrative tools to disk management then ya gotta delete the partition and set as active ive gone through this many times with externals especially 1's that are possibly screwd up|||NTFS partitions are a pain and many data can be lost, but there is also a security value from Fat 16\32 vrs NTFS. However, here is a document that can help: http://www.diskinternals.com/|||Ensure the power is on and all cables are setup correctly. If you turn the power on and can feel/hear the hard drive on the external spin up, then you at least know the drive isn't all bad. If it doesn't spin up, it is very likely bad. If the drive spins up try plugging the USB device into a USB port, if that doesn't work, try other USB ports. Generally, as long as you haven't made any special modifications, an extra drive letter should show up under "My Computer." This will be your external hard drive. One of the reasons that the hard drive may not show up is because of how it was partitioned, and the file structure. You're likely going to need to format your drive. If there is important information on the drive, you may want to take it to a data recovery specialist or pop the hard drive back into another computer and copy the information yourself, before formatting.

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