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Jonne Lindberg
I have a problem that I hope somebody can help me solve.
I'm using Windows 2000 professional on a Toshiba Satellite
Pro 4600 laptop with the latest service pack installed.
The other day I got my hands on a 10 GB harddrive (Seagate
ST310014 ACE) I mounted it in an old cabinette that used
to hold a CD-burner that I have discarded. Now
I have an external HD for parallel port connection. The
plan is to use this external for making a backup of my
laptop files once in a month or so. The slowness is no
major problem, especially as I have not payed much for
this solution.
At seagate.com I learned that no special drivers are
needed, the generic Microsoft drivers in Windows suffice.
Seagate does offer a program, DiskWizard, that is supposed
to help with the installation, I download DiskWizard.
After have been fiddeling around a bit, and having
discovered that it is impossible to use the DOS setup,
when I tried via the Command prompt I was asked to go by
the Control panel, and when I tried through the startup
procedure: "Press [D]", I pressed "D" and got throwned out
to the W2k startup screen..., it occured to me that the
DiskWizard probably is handling internal IDE installs
only, not devices connected to the LPT1.
My external drive DOES show up in Windows when e.g.
checking the hardware tab of the C-drive's properties(the
unit works and is connected to LPT1.0).
But it is NOT shown in the Explorer or other places that
would allow me to format and use it.
What on the earth should I do to solve this problem?
/jonne
I'm using Windows 2000 professional on a Toshiba Satellite
Pro 4600 laptop with the latest service pack installed.
The other day I got my hands on a 10 GB harddrive (Seagate
ST310014 ACE) I mounted it in an old cabinette that used
to hold a CD-burner that I have discarded. Now
I have an external HD for parallel port connection. The
plan is to use this external for making a backup of my
laptop files once in a month or so. The slowness is no
major problem, especially as I have not payed much for
this solution.
At seagate.com I learned that no special drivers are
needed, the generic Microsoft drivers in Windows suffice.
Seagate does offer a program, DiskWizard, that is supposed
to help with the installation, I download DiskWizard.
After have been fiddeling around a bit, and having
discovered that it is impossible to use the DOS setup,
when I tried via the Command prompt I was asked to go by
the Control panel, and when I tried through the startup
procedure: "Press [D]", I pressed "D" and got throwned out
to the W2k startup screen..., it occured to me that the
DiskWizard probably is handling internal IDE installs
only, not devices connected to the LPT1.
My external drive DOES show up in Windows when e.g.
checking the hardware tab of the C-drive's properties(the
unit works and is connected to LPT1.0).
But it is NOT shown in the Explorer or other places that
would allow me to format and use it.
What on the earth should I do to solve this problem?
/jonne