I have a laptop (Toshiba) one year ago it broke the problem was something landed on the keyboard and the computer stopped working. Now one year later i have bought a IDE/SADA to usb cord with power supply for both. when i use the cord on an IDE hard drive the jumpers need to be off and the computer will recognize the hard drive as ''mass storage from USB''. however when i use my old laptops SADA drive it says ''Not Initialized''. I know this problem not to be as a result of a defective hard drive because my new laptop that is only one year old works, and when i try this with its hard drive the same thing happens. I have tried it to connect the hard drives (new and old) on two different computers thinking maybe it was the computer, however this does not seem to be the case. both computers are running vista i made sure all the cords including power where connected, I have even searched the internet to find that i am not the only one that is having this problem with this hard drive model number is hts541080g9sa00. I hope you can help me I would like to be able to use the hard drive and am hoping to be able to get some of the old info off of it.

SOURCE: HDD not recognised

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SOURCE: Hitachi 500 GB sata Hard Drive

i have just format my compter now im haveing problums geting my sata hard drive back in i have the floppy disc what came whith it not shore how to install it