Hard drive problem. Please help.

  1. #21
    jephree is offline ¨*·.¸ «.·°·..·°·.» ¸.·*¨

    Re: Hard drive problem. Please help.

    In general a jumper should be a jumper. There is just a metal piece in the plastic sleeve that shorts the pins applied to.

    No jumpers is generally a slave setting. Did you see the jumper diagram on the drive?

    In other words yes: it should work.

  2. #22
    shou is offline Newbie
    Ok. I just wanted to make sure. I think I'm quite sure what I need to do. So... I'm going to go try it and hope that everything works. I really appreciate your help! I'll let you know how things go after the installation.

  3. #23
    jephree is offline ¨*·.¸ «.·°·..·°·.» ¸.·*¨
    OK. Will be waiting. Or at least back tomorrow about the same time.

    Best of luck!

  4. #24
    shou is offline Newbie
    Hello again! We're up and running on the new drive now. Thanks very much for your help! Things are still a bit slow, like scrolling and starting up, but I'm hoping that will go away with some time?

    I do have another question though. If I were to want to mount my old drive in the enclosure and use it as a slave, should I probably uninstall the copy of Windows that's on there? How do I do that?

    And this isn't really a hardware question... or maybe it is. I'm not sure. But, right now, my Ethernet card likes to tell me that I have "limited or no connectivity", and it seems that it only started doing that after I installed the drivers on the disk for my motherboard. I had to install it because otherwise it wouldn't recognize the sound card, but is there anyway of rolling it back, or uninstalling the ethernet driver? I think that might be what's messing it up.

  5. #25
    jephree is offline ¨*·.¸ «.·°·..·°·.» ¸.·*¨
    As to the slowness: did you reinstall your graphics drivers?

    As to the hard drive slave. Install as slave and then go to Disk Management:
    Right click My Computer then click Manage the Disk Management.
    Here right click in the box area to the right side of said drive and choose Format... . This will wipe that drive.

    If you can roll back the driver the option is in the Device Manager. Again go to Manage but this time Device Manager.
    Right click the Network adapter then Driver then Rollback Driver.

    Is it not possible from your motherboard disk to select particular drivers? i.e. just install the audio driver?

  6. #26
    shou is offline Newbie
    Oh. I think I might have forgotten to do that. Oops. Thanks.

    It was possible to select, but I didn't know that was what was affecting it. I'll try to roll it back though. Thanks!

  7. #27
    shou is offline Newbie
    Seems like that fixed everything! Thank you very much for all your help again!

  8. #28
    jephree is offline ¨*·.¸ «.·°·..·°·.» ¸.·*¨
    Thanks for the update and the thanks.

    Let us know if we can help further in the future.

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