Great guns Grazie

This means I can also do mine!

Ok what’s a jumper pattern?

It was one of the OLD Maxtor externals that I could SEE the Maxtor drive inside.

I could see a screwdriver slot to prise open the clamp of the two halves of the "shell" cover.

DONE!

Grazie

"Ok what’s a jumper pattern?"

Knit ONE

Pearl TWO

Knit THREE

Pearl TWO

I think he means the master / slave / cable select jumper.

But here's the thing. Almost everything today uses cable select and that's I'd assume is what all Grazie's drives should be jumpered for. Sooo, this swapping jumpers around thing shouldn't be necessary or could even mess something up.

Anyway, regardless congratulations to Grazie. Next step, replacing that quaddie with a faster one. I dont' know about anyone else but that system of springs and latch pins that hold the heatsink on had me going for a while.

Bob.

"system of springs and latch pins that hold the heatsink on had me going for a while." Yea, the first time is "fun". '-) There is an article in one of the current computer mags that addresses the do's and don't for the Intel Heat sink pins. This new system of latches must be causing some headaches to receive press.

On the back of the OLD external Maxtor HD I saw a jumper that WASN'T on the drive that was removed from within the PC. So all I did was note the position of the OLD external Maxtor HD jumper, removed it and placed on the the INTERNAL drive that was removed. So I transferred the Jumper top a "copied" position.

Seems to be working - Bob?

Grazie

OK, that'll be fine.
Pretty certain even if you get it wrong, worst case it doesn't work at all.

Bob

Working within the same brand and with similar model drives should be ok most of the time. However, what you really need to do is find the 'jumper callout' sticker on the drive. This will tell you what the various jumper positions mean. Translate the actual jumpers on the original drive through this sticker into words, so you end up with something like "the old drive was set for slave", or "the old drive was set for cable select". Now on the new drive find that sticker and look up the positions that match those words. Arrange the jumper on the new drive according to it's sticker.

Different drives *can* have different arrangements of pins for the same functions. Even a newer revision of the same model from the same manufacturer could be different. True, almost all seem to have standardized on a relatively consistent pattern these days, but the old drive you're pulling out might have been designed differently.

And as Bob mentioned, chances are the worst case scenario is that the drive isn't properly recognized and won't work. Take a crack at reading the stickers and trying again. You're very unlikely to damage the drive by getting it wrong.

Well, well, well Grazie,

Now we do not only have Vegas experts around here but also one HD expert.
Good to know.

:-)
Ritsmer, Copenhagen, Denmark.

"Ok what’s a jumper pattern?"

Grazie, you're such a knit-wit!

:O)

No doubt you'll be needled for days on this thread.

Your next task will be to overclock (gasp!) your quad-core system. This means getting into something called the "BIOS," and you'll be using the arrow keys and the enter key on your keyboard a lot.

Overclock your system by just 5% (easy to do) and you will earn the honorific title of "Nurd." Overclocking 10% gets you "Geek." At least that's what they're called here in the States. Maybe across the Pond they use the term "Clever Fellow."