attaching external USB disk

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I have bought a 3.5" external USB enclosure for an put there a Maxtor HDD
from another computer where it was working as a secondary drive.
Now the computer does not see this USB drive neither in w2k not in bios. A
USB memory stick when plagged into the same socket shows up both in w2k and
in bios.

Two questions:
1. Does it matter how the jumpers are set in the HDD? If so, how should
they be set?
2. I have two primary partitions and two logical on that disk. Will this
affect the HDD's visibility? If USB can cope with multipartitioned HDD, how
these partitions are going to be seen?

 

[William W. Plummer]

Try "Add hardware" on the control panel and have it search for new
hardware. I seem to remember a problem like this when I installed my
external drive, but that was a year ago and it has worked fine since.