WD800 Caviar IDE Hard Drive - trying ro access the drive with a USB Hard Drive Adapter

[Dogeraal]

Hello,

I have an old WD800 IDE (not SATA)  internal hard drive that I removed from an old tower PC. I have the drive hooked up to an external adapter designed to allow me to access the hard drive via a USB cable. I have a new laptop and running Windows 7. Now the system reports the driver was not sucessfully installed.

How do I get a driver for this old hard disk?  Do I have some other issue here?

[Wizer]

You will need the drivers for the USB enclosure not the drive

check and see if the drive appears on device manager or disk management 

[HDDRS]

if you are not able to locate driver for this enclosure, you can always try another one. But like Wizer said check if you can see it in disk manager

[fzabkar]

Have you jumpered the drive as Master?

Does the drive spin up?

How does Microsoft's UVCView utility see the external drive?
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/USB_IDs/UVCView.x86.exe