2.5" Hdd ?

I抳e recently bought a USB 2.5?HDD box to use with the hard drive from my old defunct Toshiba (w/XP) laptop. I want to extract my personal files that , hopefully are still accessible and put them into my new Acer laptop w/XP. The instructions says that the old hard drive needs to be set to 搈aster mode?- I抦 not sure what this means or how to do it ? Any ideas on what I抦 doing wrong ?



I抳e tried using the HDD with my new laptop. It detects the hard drive but it doesn抰 show up when you click on My Computer , so no access to it抯 files..



The HDD circuit board plugs into the old Toshiba hard drive pins OK but there are 4 additional separate pins left doing nothing - not sure if that means anything.

Thanks for any help or info.

Right Click my computer, go to Manage, then disk management. See if the drive shows up there. If so, right-click it and assign a drive letter to it.

I tried it but didn't find it listed under disk management. Thanks for the help and info.

Can you try the drive in another machine/laptop or in another enclosure? I have an external enclosure that sometimes doesn't work right off with some drives.