If you have a fairly new machine/BIOS and the proper cable, leaving all the jumpers off should put it in "cable select" mode, meaning the BIOS looks at it and sorts everything out on startup.
Of course, if you were using a SATA drive this would be moot.... Dan --- Bill R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am by no means among the enlightened on this > stuff, but I just went > through this with a 320G hard drive. I ended up > taking off all the jumpers > and the computer sorted it out nicely. I was having > some trouble with the > hard drive not working and the seller sent me a > Hirens boot CD that > straightened it out pretty well. I think I still am > short a few gigs, but > the 320g is large enough so that I don't mind. > BillR > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Craig McCluskey > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 11:11 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Subject: Re: [MBZ] O/T Hitachi Hard Drive > > On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:02:38 -0400 Peter T. Arnold > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I'm not a wizard at this, maybe some help out > there? > > > > I bought a new Hitachi 250GB hard drive from > Tiger. It came with no > > instructions at all. > > I want to use it as a slave. > > I installed it, WinXP found it on the first boot, > or so the little > > pop-up said. > > > > Now it's no where in my system, I can't find it ?? > > > > I can find it in "Control Panel/devices" Looks > good there. > > > > I'm sure I have jumpers wrong, I can find no info. > > > > > > Suggestions? > > Search on Hitachi's website for the manual on the > disk. That will tell you > where the jumpers need to be. > > Shut down the computer and boot into your BIOS > screen. Look for two disks > listed, one of which may be the Hitachi. If both > disks show up, your > jumpers are correct. > > Before XP will allow you to use it, you need to > format it and then tell > the system where to mount it. I've done it in the > past, but I don't recall > the steps. As I recall, the information about the > steps was hard to > locate. > > > Craig > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: > http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: > http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
