Formatting internal hard drive with external enclosure...

Formatting the drive is easy, if you have xp or 2000:


- "Windows Key" + "R"
- type "compmgmt.msc"
- under storage select "Disk Management"
- then find your hd, right-click on it and format.

 

In 98 SE....

If you have the hd hooked up via USB or internally (via IDE):

Go to command prompt:

format d: (or whatever drive letter)

and then use the convert function in dos to convert to desired file system. For help with convert type "convert /?" in dos, or visit:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307881&sd=tech


Or you can forget about everything above and use fdisk:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;255867

 

get into dos and do this

lets say your drive is D:

format d:

convert d: /fs:ntfs

 

Try seeing what is on the driver CD through windows explorer, look under D:\PM-525U2\WINDOWS (if D: is youre cd-rom) and see if there are names of specfic Operating Systems (ie XP, 2000, 98, etc.), then choose accordingly. From my experience, any folder named WINDOWS usually has different OS's under it because drivers are usually specific to each OS.

 

Does Win98 support USB2.0? You do have a USB2.0 card in your pc right? (I appologize for asking if you do)

 

Do you have USB 2 ports? USB 1.1 has a transfer rate of 12 mbps (i think) and USB 2.0 has 480 mbps (I think). Remember 8 mbps = 1 mBps (bit vs Byte).

 

Try...open Device Manager (right-click My Computer, select Manage, find Device Manager) find Universal Serial Bus (USB) and check to see if you have anything about an "enhanced" controller, if you do then you should have 2.0.

But I did buy a USB 2.0 enclosure and it was very slow...so it might be the enclosure. I eventually just put the HD in my computer via the IDE bus.

 

No, dont go to BB and pay them for something that you can do.

To install a HD all you have to do is open the case (unplug pc), discharge yourself of static electricity (touch something metal), find your current HD, attatched to it there should be two wires: one a flat IDE wire (looks like duct tape) and the other wire is the power.

On the IDE cable there should be an open ide connector that you connect to the second HD, then find an open power wire (if it fits, its the right one). And plug it in.

Before you close the case or even attach wires look for jumpers on second HD and find a diagram where it shows whats a master and slave and set your second drive to slave. Jumpers are basically just little plastic pieces with metal inside of them that will make a circuit when put over two pins, in this case used to configuire the drive as to being the Master (what you want to boot from) and the slave.

Turn the computer on and it should automatically recognize the drive.

I bought a USB 2.0 enclosure and if you are wanting to use it to store video its not the speed that you need/want, but I hear and read that firewire performs close to 2x's as fast as USB 2 despite having possible a max rate of 400 mbps, I don't understand why though.