Need Help with Building New External HD??

I have this 20gb Seagate Internal drive that I am installing in this External Drive case. Now that I got it all put together I cant get Wins Xp Pro to recognize it when I plug it in to the USb 2.0 ports. I was told that you could use this HD as a Plug and Play devise. NOTSO. The only driver that came w/ the enclouser was a win 98 cd. The CD does not work w/ XP PRo. Question is there any way to partion it to the computer without a Driver installation. Divise Manager did recognize in the begining as a Mass Storage divice. But now it doesnot see it. I have tried to get it installed for several days now. Thanks for any help anyone can give me. ODIE

 

See http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=115655

Studio T

 

Does the external case have any instruction regarding HD jumper settings? Maybe you just need to move it to Master. You should need no driver for WinXP.

 

Studio T: Thanks for the help. It worked. I had to unplug the power unit and reinstall the power unit. Disk manager recognized it. And it was a easy from there. I Don't Know what I was doing wrong. I thought that because it was a clean drive that wins could not read something that was not there. Thanks again. ODIE

 

The Doug: No jumper setting was given. Just said that it was a Plug and play. I got the problem fixed. Thanks. ODIE