I have been using this drive as a secondary in my desktop, but am experiencing some weird issues with using it…
I recently reformatted my main SATA drive, but before doing this, I removed my WD drive just to prevent any issues…
Once I had my main drive and system back up to snuff, I attempted to reconnect this drive, as it had been before, but could not either get my system to boot with it connected…no matter which position I connected it on the IDE cable, nor with either the jumper removed, or with the jumper in any position…
I then thought, ok, I will just get an external usb enclosure, and use it that way (which would actually be really convenient to use it with my laptop)…
So I get the external enclosure today, and go through trying to get my system to recognize it, again, attempting to use it both without the jumper in place, and also in every position…now heres the weird thing…if I do not use the jumper, and connect it via the usb cable, while my system recognizes it as a "USB Mass Storage Device (and it actually shows up in the Device Manager as "Initio WD800-EB-00DJF0 USB Device), it does not assign it a drive letter, and I cannot access the drive…
I know the USB drive enclosure is working as I tested it using some other, older drives I had, and even reformatted a couple of them…
And thoughts, hints, clues or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks…
Dave
