Hard Disc Caddy

[HowardKennitby]

Following on from my previous post on this.

I have got the caddy and have been looking at the 3 discs I have. One is fine and is now permanently in the caddy. When I fitted the other two I got a message box for both on the task bar which said something like 'new hardware detected, USB mass storage device'
Thing is neither of them showed in Win Explorer or in MS Word when I tried to open/save file as a trial.
What could have caused this?

thanks for any suggestions

Howie

[rccatnap]

When you plug anything into the USB port it will usually come up with that message. Have you checked that the jumper plug on the HDD is set for the disk to be a master?
Have you looked at the drive in 'My Computer' rather than Windows Explorer?
If it appears, right click on the icon and format the disk, giving it a volume number or name.

[HowardKennitby]

I have done nothing with the jumpers. One drive had none fitted and I believe the other drive would be set as master. Guy in Maplin recommended taking all jumpers off but said it should not matter what the setting was.

[antpdeana]

If it's plugged into a USB port, the guy from maplins is correct, makes no difference if the jumpers at rear of the drive are on or not, you only need the jumpers to be on if you are plugging the drive into an IDE port on the motherboard.
Search for Computer Management on Windows 7, then once you have opened that, look for Disk Managment in the left hand panel, click on that
and it will show all the disks on youre system, if the drive is there, it may be that you need to assign a drive letter to it, to do this you right click on the drive, and look for 'change drive letter and paths' and follow on screen
instructions, you can also format the drive from there, suggest if you are going to format the drive, then use NTFS file format for using it in Windows 7.