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by manxann

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I have a USB External Drive Housing in which I installed an old 2.5 Gb HDD, connected up and worked fine. I changed the drive for a 40Gb unit and XP will not detect the unit. Put the 2.5Gb unit back, works fine! The installed drive is good, just replaced by a bigger one as it is almost full! Any suggestions would be welcome as I am somewhat baffled!

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by rob miners

of the System that you are using and the Operating System.

If it is in a USB enclosure the recommended Jumper setting is Master.

by manxann

XP home, sp3 , Asus P5L-MX M/b, Intel Coreduo 1.6, 2048Gb Ram

HDD that works is 2.5 Gb Seagate ST52520A,no jumpers, ones I've tried that don't work are Seagate 40Gb ST340014A, Cable select, and Quantum 28Gb LA26A011, no jumpers

by thumbsup2

Did you use the Safely Remove Hardware icon first? That stops the drive so you can unplug the USB from the system. Then, put the new drive in and plug the USB back into the computer.

by manxann

Never occurred to me! Changed jumper to master and booted up no problem! One to file in the Duh! files!

Thanks again!

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