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Confusing Hard Drive jumpers (PATA or IDE)
I bought a new IDE (also called PATA) hard drive on ebay. It's a white
label drive, model WL120PATA872. I;m beginning to think it's defective. I have never had all this trouble partitioning and formatting a hard drive. Part of the problem is that it has TWO sets of jumper settings on the label. One says "16 heads". The other says "32gb Clip". Both are different for the jumpers. I have it on the first IDE cable connector, (as a slave or second drive). My boot drive is on the second or end of cable connector. (Thats how it's supposed to be). Just for the heck of it, I reversed the connectors. I cant even get Dos to boot, so I cant run Fdisk on it. But I'm not sure which jumper setting to use. Anyone know? Being a slave, I know not to use the MASTER setting. For the heck of it, I put my USB to HDD cables on it, and plugged it into my XP machine. I loaded Partition Magic and that program is giving me errors too. (Normally a great program). If I at least know which jumper settings to use, that really would help. If that dont do it, the drive must be bad. |
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