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Hi,
I ran into your situation a couple of years ago when external enclosures
hit the market. I bought a USB box, stuck in a Maxtor 120 mb hdd that I had
running from some older computer (probably 10 years old) and although XP
said it installed the drive I couldn't see it. I returned the enclosure
annoyed. The merchant at the computer show said there was nothing wrong with
the box, took off a 15% restocking fee and took it back (angry as hell at
that point).
Sometime later on I read some information that the drive may have needed
to be reformatted using the disk management utility in the control panel
(Administrative Tools> Computer Management>Disk Management).
What I might suggest is to first take the drive you wanted to install as
USB and hook it up to your computer with a ribbon cable to IDE channel 2 as
a master. If it's running OK the bios should pick it up as well as XP. If it
does then reformat it and stick it back into the USB drive.
If the bios didn't see the drive hooked up to the IDE channel then you'll
immediately know the drive is bad.
--
Jan Alter
bearpuf@verizon.net
or
jalter@phila.k12.pa.us
"Art" <Anonymous@notanisp.com> wrote in message
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>> "Louise" <none@nospam.com> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.1c48df6b1a5cc4659897ba@news-server.nyc.rr.com...
>>>I just purchased a Rosewill USB enclosure from Newegg.
>>>
>>> I installed an old 40gig Maxtor drive that I had from an old computer.
>>> It connected but Win XP Pro said it found new hardware, couldn't install
>>> it and it wont work. And it was true - the drive wasn't recognized at
>>> all.
>>>
>>> It has occurred to me that there might be a problem with the jumper
>>> settings. If I'm going to use it as USB drive, should it be slave,
>>> master, select - what?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> Louise
>>
>> Master with no slave attached (some drives require you to specify whether
>> a slave is attached) -Dave
>
> Louise & Dave:
> Out of curiosity we've jumpered USB external hard drives in every
> conceivable configuration - single, master, slave, cable select - and it
> made no difference whatsoever in the XP OS either recognizing the drive or
> any performance problem that we could detect as a result of jumper
> configuration. So at least based upon our experience it would seem that
> jumper configuration is immaterial when it involves a USB external HD.
>
> Now I note Louise says it's an "old" Maxtor HD. I have to say the drives
> we worked with are fairly new -- nothing much older than three years. I
> don't imagine the age of the drive would be a factor in this case but I
> thought I'd mention it.
> Art
>
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