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    Oct 16, 2006, 09:52 AM
    USB Portable Hard Drive
    I have an existing hard drive that was formatted to be a slave (without OS) and has data already on it. I removed the hard drive from the machine and plugged it into a USB Portable Hard Drive. My computer will not recognize that the external hard drive is present. I do not want to erase the data on the hard drive. I want to be able to use it as back-up on 2 different machines.
    Please help me.:confused:
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    Oct 16, 2006, 10:23 AM
    Do you mean a portable hard drive enclosure? Are you sure its compatible with the hard drive? Did you check the CMOS settings to see what it says about drives?
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    Oct 16, 2006, 10:32 AM
    It is an enclosure. I believe it is compatible and currenty I'm trying to play around with the master / slave / cs settings to see if any of them work. Any insight?
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    Oct 16, 2006, 10:36 AM
    Set the master slave jumper as CS. The drive is connected via USB not IDE or SATA so that doesn't apply.
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    Oct 16, 2006, 10:52 AM
    Thanks for the help, I'm going to try that.
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