USB Hard Drive Not Showing Up

Hi, I have an old hard drive which was getting used in my older hard drive (its mobo is dead now). My new PC is running with Windows XP. As I needed some important data from my older HDD, I packed it in USB external enclosure and connected with this new desktop. I can see system installing its drivers and all in the system tray. Later I got message also saying installation was successful. I can even see this drive in Disk management but it is not showing up in My computer or windows explorer.

Tried connecting in various ports but yet the same. I thought to transfer the files in safe mode but it is not getting detected even in safe mode. Any idea what could be the problem?

Well reasons could be many for this problem but lets talk about solutions. If you have laptop-to-IDE adapter then simply connect the drive directly to the host computer as a slave. Or if you dont want to do that then your USB enclosure might be faulty. You probably need a new one.