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How To Get a Kingwin USB Drive Enclosure To Work In Windows XP

I foolishly purchased a Kingwin Blackjack BJK-35USBI from Newegg for the low price of $14.99 + Shipping and Handling.
Big mistake – this thing is terrible.
First, the documentation says nothing about it working with Windows XP. And it doesn’t – most of the time.
That said, I did discover a trick to get it working some [...]

How to Re-Mount a USB Drive in Windows Without Rebooting

I have a really crappy Kingwin USB external drive enclosure.
It doesn’t usually work.
When it does work, I am able to connect it to my XP computer exactly once. That’s right – after choosing to “Safely remove hardware” from the computer, when I reconnect the drive it isn’t recognized by Windows until I [...]

  

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