Hi i have just purchased an Icy Box 390 external HDD caddy and installed a seagate 250gb drive into it.

My motherboard has a silicon imaging controller for my e sata connection which i have enabled.

The drive wasnt detected at post when the silicon imaging screen came up and it didnt show in windows xp but on the second boot it still didnt show up at post but was there in disk management so i was able to initialize, partition and format the drive.

I then copied all my data i wanted backed up and then went and did the same on my daughters pc although this time through USB (using e sata on my pc).

When i came back to my PC i reconnected the external again through e sata with the pc powered down and all that happens is it stalls for ages while the controller looks for the drive and then XP boots real slow and again nothings showing in My computer ect.

I dont want to use it via USB so what am i doing wrong.

Thanks