Thread: External SATA hard drive not recognized by computer

I am having a Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 7200m 16MB, SATA-300, OEM Hard Drive and it has a Enclosure of Vantec NexStar-3 3.5" USB/eSATA/Firewire 800/400 Interface and I am using Windows XP Home Edition SP2 and my external SATA hard drive is not being identified by the system. Even the SATA drive is not to be seen in MY COMPUTER or DISK MANAGER. And I have a MSI motherboard Amethyst M 1.0 with two SATA connectors on it. As the number one SATA port is being used by the internal SATA drive and the SATA2 & operates very well. I also tried connecting the other SATA3 connector with the SATA cable attached to SATA to eSATA port. But it does not operate either on USB 2.0 connection also any suggestion please help me to solve this problem?

You don’t have to install any application in the system. Just run the Disk Management to partition it as well as format the partitions. You may require activating them also.