How do i set jumpers!!!?

I just mounted a new seagate sata300 hard drive in my hard drive bay and my motherboard only supports sata150 i think. I need to change it to sata150 but i don't know how. There is a jumper slot on the back but annoyingly it's not a switch so i have no idea how to operate it. Someone please enlighten me!

pull the drive back out completely. On the label somewhere, there should be a diagram. normally there's *trying to remember from memory* 9 pins on the back of the drive, set up in a 2x5 pattern with 1 pin missing. There should be a little plastic gizmo, that slides over any 1x2 selection. On the label, it should indicate which pins to cover with the jumper to relegate the drive into sata150 mode. (As well as offering several other combinations.)

good luck. its not that hard to decipher once you look at the diagram and find the silly little plastic gizmo thats used to set the jumpers. (it should already be attached to the back of the drive in a neutral way, that doesnt effect any drive settings.)

Ok i started up my pc and it said that it found new hardware and it had sensed the new harddrive with a capacity of 250.1 gigs but it's not appearing in my computer. How do i make it appear as a second hard drive?george_hopkins

did yoo restart the computer again ?

[QUOTE="george_hopkins"]Ok i started up my pc and it said that it found new hardware and it had sensed the new harddrive with a capacity of 250.1 gigs but it's not appearing in my computer. How do i make it appear as a second hard drive?LahiruD

did yoo restart the computer again ?

No, i will do so right now.

you have to go to.

control panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/storage/disk management

you have to go to.

control panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/storage/disk management

Random__Guy

I'm on there and the disk has showed up. What do i do now to get it working? My other disk has a letter and my 250gig just says unallocated. What do i have to do to get this set up as a second storage hard drive? I will be installing games on it mostly.

when you first go there something popups thats says something like "do you want to activate drive" you press ok, then right ckick on the new drive and go to "format" might take awhile maybe 30min.Random__Guy

It says the drive is online and it's basic. When i right click on it it doesn't say format anywhere. Just says 'convert to dynamic disk' whatever that means.

your main disk has a area that has a blue line,

right click in that area of new disk

your main disk has a area that has a blue line,

right click in that area of new disk

Random__Guy

It says 'new partition' but it doesn't say format? Shall i create a partition? I'm using xp professional by the way.

The other disk however when i right click in the blue bar area has a greyed out format option. Do i have to create a partition before i can do all this?

do new partition, for max size, then formatRandom__Guy

primary or extended?

primaryRandom__Guy

Ok it's formatting, 7% done so far with a primary partition with drive name G (for george:))

Thanks a lot for your help! :) It should work as a second hard drive after this right?

when its done formating it should be readyRandom__Guy

Just wondering.... could i transfer my installed games over to my new hard drive? I'm planning on putting all my installs on the 250gig and all of my music, videos and programs like photoshop on my 160gig. Could i do this?

omg really?

a moth just flew into my side fan and inside my pc!! :o:o !!

what is it with moths :o

read my thread.. its actually quiet a frigtening ordeal

it was on my motherboard :'(:'(:'(

omg really?

a moth just flew into my side fan and inside my pc!! :o:o !!

what is it with moths :o

read my thread.. its actually quiet a frigtening ordeal

it was on my motherboard :'(:'(:'(

Ephexis

Haha i hate them now! I can't leave my window open at night without a huge one flying in and scaring me! Infact theres one sitting on my lampshade right now, it's been there for 2 nights now but it's not flying at me so i don't care. it's not dead either because it has moved quite a bit.

But yea, because of moths i have to suffer and boil to death in my room at night! :( even when i have no other lights on the light of my computer screen attracts them.