I have a compaq laptop, with a 40 gb hard drive. I just bought a hitachi 100gb drive and have it in an external case. the case is powered up and i can here the drive spinning in it, but my computer isnt detecting anything under the "my computer" screen. All the drivers are installed and double checked. What could be wrong. the drive says somthin about jumpers on it. does that have anythin to do with it> please help fast.
2006-07-20 13:23:10 · 8 answers · asked by Suga 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
what do i do with jumper? what does that mean. Slave settings? how can i format it if my comp doesnt find it?
2006-07-20 13:28:46 · update #1
the booklet for the external case says windows xp has the drivers built in. what im trying to do right now is format this new hard drive by copying all files from the current one to the new one, and then swap them out.
2006-07-20 13:31:37 · update #2
the hard drive did not come with anything. what is BIOS?
2006-07-20 13:34:46 · update #3
i tried the whole disk management thing and it isnt showing up. i restarted it, tried different USB ports and still nothin.
2006-07-20 13:37:03 · update #4
can one of u people who know about this go on AIM or somthin and help me out. IM me at xxxcivic2001 if u can help thanks.
2006-07-20 13:42:22 · update #5
THANKS 4 ALL UR HELP "WENDY Y" ITS FORMATTING RIGHT NOW. IF I TALK TO YOU LATER I'LL EXPLAIN WHAT WAS WRONG...THANKS AGAIN
2006-07-20 14:32:56 · update #6
Is the Hard Drive External or Internal?
What is your Operating System?
Jumpers are only utilized if you are utilizing internal HD that needs to be set to work with existing hard drives. From the information, it does not should like an internal hard drive. If it is, all hard drives have a diagram on to set the jumper on the HD ( to be master, slaves, auto).
If it is an external HD (which is what it sounds like), you probably have not installed the drivers for it. Win XP usually auto-detect and install default HD drivers. But Win 2000 and previous OS does not and you will need to install the drivers.
2006-07-20 13:33:03 · answer #1 · answered by dbrhee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to your system's Control Panel (Start --> Control Panel), if you are using Category View, you might want to switch it to Classic View. Then run "Administrative Tools", and go into "Computer Management", on the left column with the list that begins 'Computer Management (Local)', look down to find the part called "Disk Management" and click on it.
To your right, you will find the list of drives your computer detected and the drive letter it has assigned (like C: for your default hard drive), at the bottom, find the 100GB Drive and right click on the section to bring a menu that has the option "Change Drive Letter and Paths", give that drive a drive letter that hasn't been used, an example would be H:
After doing this, you can access your drive at H: from My Computer all the time.
*UPDATE*
So was the drive in "Disk Management" detected in the first place? Did you assign drive letter different from what you already have in the list of drives there? If yest, then try to go to "Start --> Run" and type in the drive letter you assigned with colon and see if any error messages occur.
2006-07-20 20:31:40 · answer #2 · answered by Wendy Y 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Several things could be wrong. Some external cases require that the drive be formatted first. You could also try plugging it into a different port - once in awhile that helps (though not often, to be honest). What is the connection type? If it's not USB (such as a parallel connection) then you'd have to install drivers for the external case first. You might also try rebooting the PC and then trying it again - once in awhile this helps.
2006-07-20 20:29:31 · answer #3 · answered by Andy M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh sorry didn't realize you meant an external hard drive. Ok, what about the usb drivers, are they recognized properly?
Did your hard drive come with an install disk? Update the drivers, or uninstall them, restart and have windows auto detect new hard ware. I am presuming this external drive is usb.
also paid tech support at yto.ca may be able to help you, they helped me with lots of stuff.
Jumper settings tell the drive whether to recognize the hard drive as master/slave or stand alone. Manual that came with the drive should have some information on how to set them. It is different for each brand of hard drive.
Also, is this hard drive recognized in the BIOS?
2006-07-20 20:26:23 · answer #4 · answered by IcePrincess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jumpers are use to set your hard drive to be either master or secondary, you need to set the second hard drive as as secondary or a slave drive.
2006-07-20 20:31:57 · answer #5 · answered by Irie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to bios theres an option "load bios default" or auto detection, if the problem persist, system error, reformat your system.
2006-07-20 20:45:52 · answer #6 · answered by damongligaw 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
format it
2006-07-20 20:27:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
jumpers can have something to do with it.
2006-07-20 20:29:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋