External Harddrive won't work with Vista

[Azrael138]

I have a standard 80 gig Western Digital hard drive which I converted to an external hard drive with an ide-to-usb kit. It ran on my old laptop, which had XP installed. That laptop has since stopped working, and I want to move the files over to my Vista machine. Whenever I plug in the harddrive and attempt to find it in "Computer," the window freezes and says "not responding" until I unplug it. It just won't recognize the hard drive or let me explore it at all. Any ideas?

 

[KSoD]

Do you have the proper chipset drivers installed? Did it come with any software that needed to be installed? Are you connecting it directly to the PC and not to a USB Hub?

 

[Azrael138]

The chipset for the PC is up to date on drivers. There was no software included, only cables. It is hooked directly into a usb port on the pc, not a usb hub.