Pci to usb wont show on windows 7

photogifts

Hi little bit of a problem here

I bought myselff a usb to pci cable and i have plugged in a couple of hard drives from 2.5 to 3.5 and it powers up fine on my pc windows 7 64bit bit there is not a drive showing on my computer

Now the device on laptop windows vista work fine no problems like normal plug and play device but when comes to my computer zilch

what i have tried

Ive looked on my computer and disk management and theres no sign of any drive ive looked in device manager cant see any error codes or yellow icons

motherboard drivers last updated few months ago Asus m2n68-am motherboard

tried to add a device nothing shows up on there

as i say it works fine n windows vista laptop but not on my windows 7

any ideas ?

AHAR

photogifts wrote: »

I bought myselff a usb to pci cable

USB to IDE?
Is it supposed to be compatible with 64-bit versions?

Apples2

Are you plugging it straight into the USB port on the rear of the PC?

Sometimes going though USB Hubs can cause this sort of problem

AirCooledHeaven

Do you get the 'recognition bleep' when you plug the device in?

Sounds hardware related rather than software, if you plug a device in win 7 should recognise something, even if it can't support what you plugged in. You sure you're getting enough juice out of the USB ports to properly power up the drives? Just hearing them spin up doesn't necessarily mean they have enough power for correct operation. Of course I'm assuming that the drives are usb powered.

photogifts

I just hear my hard disk spinning when in my pc the device works fine on laptop drive shows up you get asked if want to open files and thats with vista and on my pc windows 7 64 i have tried various usb ports front and back and have used 2 seperate hard drives plugged in to this device no joy they alll work fine on laptop so device and hard drive are fine just on pc but any pen drives i put in my pc work no problem .

what ithe device is you put a IDE cable and power cable, to a internal hard drive or disk drive and it makes it external which runs off usb

AirCooledHeaven

photogifts wrote: »

I just hear my hard disk spinning when in my pc the device works fine on laptop drive shows up you get asked if want to open files and thats with vista and on my pc windows 7 64 i have tried various usb ports front and back and have used 2 seperate hard drives plugged in to this device no joy they alll work fine on laptop so device and hard drive are fine just on pc but any pen drives i put in my pc work no problem .

what ithe device is you put a IDE cable and power cable, to a internal hard drive or disk drive and it makes it external which runs off usb

You could try a powered usb hub...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trust-Port-Usb-2-0-Power/dp/tech-data/B001UE6OC8/ref=de_a_smtd

Toxteth_OGrady

Might be worth checking to se if you have USB Legacy Devices enabled in the BIOS.

photogifts

Ah thank you post number 7 i went into bios and checked usb legacy it was on auto but i changed to enabled and that did the trick and is working on my pc