IDE Drive through USB - Vista won't open files

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Tobuk

Limp Gawd
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So I have a Hard Drive out of an old laptop that crapped out. When plugged in, it powers up fine, the disk is spinning and my computer will see that the drive is there. Pop up says device is working properly, and allows me to "safely remove" it. Device manager shows it is there, giving the proper model name and such.

All of this, but my computer won't let me open the drive to get the files. It doesn't show up in the My Computer window... I have tried a couple of different external plug in setups, and they all do the same thing, even the ones with a dedicated power cord and two USB plugs to give the device more power.

Any help would be appreciated.
 
Are there any driver CDs/additional software?

Is it possible to try this out on another OS like XP?
 
It does show up under disk management. It first said the disk was 'offline,' so I enabled it, but I don't know what to do now...

and I have tried to use this HDD on an XP machine as well. Same thing.
 
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