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Remember the hard drive Ian put on bargains post... and then I put the US version... well they came in the mail last night. One of the hardrives is bummed...
Originally wanted the drive to be an external drive.. so I got an enclosure and the Western Digital Caviar 320 GB 7200 rpm Ultra IDE. Well at first I thougt is was a bummed enclosure because the lights were not working and pc would never recognise it. So I removed it from enclosure and installed it as slave to the pc. It didn't work there either.. I got really fed up... installed the drive stand alone and tried installing an OS...nothing....
Well I've sent in the request for RMA of the drive... the enclosure works great though... would you beleive I took a Quantam Fireball drive from my old Gateway 2000 and plugged it into the enclosure and poof... instantly recogonised.... no need to even format it. That means I could have booted Win98se from the enclosure. Wonderful device.. I may write the review... still playing with it. For Win Xp complet plug and play.. no drivers needed. Came with a driver cd for 98.
Originally wanted the drive to be an external drive.. so I got an enclosure and the Western Digital Caviar 320 GB 7200 rpm Ultra IDE. Well at first I thougt is was a bummed enclosure because the lights were not working and pc would never recognise it. So I removed it from enclosure and installed it as slave to the pc. It didn't work there either.. I got really fed up... installed the drive stand alone and tried installing an OS...nothing....
Well I've sent in the request for RMA of the drive... the enclosure works great though... would you beleive I took a Quantam Fireball drive from my old Gateway 2000 and plugged it into the enclosure and poof... instantly recogonised.... no need to even format it. That means I could have booted Win98se from the enclosure. Wonderful device.. I may write the review... still playing with it. For Win Xp complet plug and play.. no drivers needed. Came with a driver cd for 98.