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Title: External HD Issues
Post by: .:F3ar0n:. on October 26, 2005, 11:49:45 AM

Hey Guys

I'm running a silver river External enclosure and I just bought a new 160 gb hd to throw in it. I Seem to be having issues getting xp to see the blasted thing. it worked before with my 15 gb hd. I set the jumper on master, and I know it's not an issue with size (supports up to 300 gb hd) Any idea on how to fix. I've uninstalled and reinstalled, and deleted and reinstalled drivers. If you have some spare time to research a possible solution, feel free. I've looked online but seem to be having a lot of trouble finding help on installing and driver on this thing. It's made by Thermaltake and it's the 5.x" not the 3.5". Thanks

David

F3ar0n

Title: External HD Issues
Post by: The Shoctor on October 26, 2005, 11:57:00 AM

If it's a Western Dig. NO JUMPER!!! EVIL CORP DOES STUPID THINGS!

Title: External HD Issues
Post by: .:F3ar0n:. on October 26, 2005, 12:05:30 PM

No, its Seagate, i'll try no jumper and see what happens

Thanks

Title: External HD Issues
Post by: TekieB on October 26, 2005, 12:46:59 PM

is the drive formatted? They come unformatted, and you have to format them yourself

http://www.d-silence.com/feature.php?id=246 look at that and if there is "unpartitioned space," then format it

Title: External HD Issues
Post by: Fear0n on October 27, 2005, 08:15:07 AM

Yeah,

I gave up on going external. The main issue was that windows didn't have activated the support for larger hard drive (134 gb+). I found this out after running seagates install hd program. So I instated the support crap and tried again...no luck. I ended up getting the thing to work after I used windows xp as a boot and went into the repair. I partitioned and formated it there and just swapped it in one of my free 3.5 slots. Works great

160 gb only 154gb after partition :-(

In short, my external hd won't be reconized by windows unless the drive is partitioned and formated. Sorta wierd I think, but I'm just happy it works. And this is why I will always have a duel  boot of linux on my system. When crappy windows decides to fail once again. Will post about my "experience" with activating windows in another post. Read and you'll better understand what I mean

Went to Suse and it Instantly reconized the drive and enabled it (thanks plunger)

David

F3ar0n