Doug
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I know nothing about computer building as such so I dont know about jumpers.
Put a hard drive into an external case, when plugged in it gets recognised and installs software for it, but thats as far as it goes. It dosnt pop up as a drive under 'my computer'
Picture of sticker.....
Picture of jumper settings.....
What setting do the jumpers need to be in?
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James_DT
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Master or Cable Select.
When it's plugged in, right click 'My Computer' and goto Manage. Look under disk drives, it should show up there and will tell you if it's been formatted or not.
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pdwhelan
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You need to create a parition on it and then format it in order to be able to use it.. just a quick how to here
Control panal
Administrative Tools
Computer managment
On the left hand side of computer management you should see Disk Management under Storage..
Select that and you should see the hard drive on the right that might say unpartitioned.. Right click and create partition.. (not used it for a long time so my wording of things might be a bit wrong)
If you have a bit of knowladge with computers then you'll be OK
Hope this helps 
[Edited on 23-08-2007 by pdwhelan]
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Steve
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youl need to format it and create a partition before you can see it, do what james said, right click my computer, manage, disk management
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Doug
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So I wont need to change the jumpers around?
It should just be a case of going into control pannel and formatting it?
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kz
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strange, never had to do this with mine. just set jumpers to slave, popped it in and hey presto!
i guess i was lucky!
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pdwhelan
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They are normaly set to master from new anyway i think so i wouldnt worry about that.. if it does need changing then its only a 5second job anyway
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Doug
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Just sorted it, set it all up as drive Z and started the formating, its a 500gb drive so I wasnt going to sit there for hours so left it with her 
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pdwhelan
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Glad you sorted it
[Edited on 23-08-2007 by pdwhelan]
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Steve
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set it to cable select if your that worried
PS quick format would have been fine and taken a few seconds
[Edited on 23-08-2007 by Steve]
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pdwhelan
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not sure you can do quick formats if its a brand new hard drive, can you? its been a while since i have messed around with computer shit
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Steve
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yeah you can yo
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pdwhelan
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cool dint fink so boiiiiiiiiii
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