Installing HDD

[Guest]

Greetings and thank you. I have a Dell inspiron 1100 and I am trying to
install a Samsung 250g HDD (SP2514N) in a USB Enclosure Kit. I have tried
with the jumper installed so it thinks it's only 32 g and tried it without.
I cannot get my computer to recognize it. I go to Admin tools > Disk
Managment to try and format it, but it does not display. I have update my
drivers for the USB and that still does not help. Any ideas? I have tried
it in my desktop and still no luck. I am tempted to install it in my old pc
desktop as a slave in order to format it, then take it out to see if it is
reckognized that way. What do you think?

 

[Guest]

THink you need to go Samsung web to download the HDD driver... Can't remember
where I read it, but you need a HDD driver to be able to recognise any HDD
more than 120+GB...

 

[paulmd]

Greetings and thank you. I have a Dell inspiron 1100 and I am trying to
install a Samsung 250g HDD (SP2514N) in a USB Enclosure Kit. I have tried
with the jumper installed so it thinks it's only 32 g and tried it without.
I cannot get my computer to recognize it. I go to Admin tools > Disk
Managment to try and format it, but it does not display. I have update my
drivers for the USB and that still does not help. Any ideas? I have tried
it in my desktop and still no luck. I am tempted to install it in my old pc
desktop as a slave in order to format it, then take it out to see if it is
reckognized that way. What do you think?

You can usually pull the thing out of the enclosure to find it's an
ordinary unmodified IDE disk. If so, you can connect it directly to
your IDE cable. Leave it as a master, and put it on the secondary
channel (it's OK to temporarly unplug the CD or whatever else you've
got on that channel).

You can find out if the drive is working, that way. If it works
connected to the IDE device, you've probably got a bad enclosure, and
you should return it. If it doesn't work, you've got a bad hard drive.

Keep in mind, that if your PC is old enough, you'll have to set the 32
Gig clip. If it's a particully cheap older computer, you may be bios
limited to 8 Gig. But this shousdn't interfere with basic recognition.

 

[Andy]

Greetings and thank you. I have a Dell inspiron 1100 and I am trying to
install a Samsung 250g HDD (SP2514N) in a USB Enclosure Kit. I have tried
with the jumper installed so it thinks it's only 32 g and tried it without.
I cannot get my computer to recognize it. I go to Admin tools > Disk
Managment to try and format it, but it does not display. I have update my
drivers for the USB and that still does not help. Any ideas? I have tried
it in my desktop and still no luck. I am tempted to install it in my old pc
desktop as a slave in order to format it, then take it out to see if it is
reckognized that way. What do you think?

You haven't mentioned what kind of USB enclosure you have. Formatting
the drive would be pointless. The drive should show in Disk Management
even if it has no partitions. Does the drive show in device manager?
It has to, before it shows in Disk Management.