Well, I was able to get the 80GB hard drive to be recognized by the USB2 port...
How did I do it?? I read the instructions and found out that there are TWO USB2 cords to plug into the back of the USB2 HDD enclosure. One for data, the other for POWER. Plug the power cord in and guess what?? It works. D'oh ! ! ! Don't I feel stupid?? I now have partitioned the 80GB as drive E: (for now) using Casper XP and I will be setting up the original 40GB HDD to be cloned overnight by Casper XP (which is much easier to use and better than Norton Ghost)
HOWEVER..... I still have not been able to get the 80GB HDD to be recognized went it is installed in the removable second hard drive D-Bay.. Any thoughts on that issue??? (There are no plugs for me to forget...)
Thanks for the responses. I now have everything working as I had hoped.
Although the BayWolf website is useful, it only explains how to physically install the hard drive in the second hard drive module. The website does not offer any solutions when the hard drive isn't recognized by Windows XP after it has been slid into the laptop's D-Bay slot.
The key seems to be that the hard drive must first have at least a low level format on it for the drive to be recognized as the second hard drive when using it in the D-Bay module.
Once I plugged in BOTH USB2 cables into the back of the laptop for the external USB2 hard drive enclosure, XP Pro SP2 recognized the hard drive and allowed me to format the drive using XP Disk Management or Casper XP. Once I formatted the new drive, I took it out of the USB2 external enclosure and put the drive back into the second hard drive D-Bay module and slid the drive module into the slot, where it was recognized by Windows XP and it worked perfectly. Yea!!
I then used Casper XP to make an exact "Clone" of the smaller primary 40GB drive onto the new larger second 80GB drive. Let me tell you, Casper XP is "da bomb". With just a few easy steps to start the process, Casper XP made an exact "Bootable" clone of the smaller hard drive onto the larger hard drive in less than an hour and all from within Windows XP. Norton Ghost requires booting the machine to DOS and remembering a bunch of Dos-like commands to perform the "clone". With Casper XP it is "Click, click, done real quick".
After the hard drive "Clone" was complete, I took the 80GB hard drive out of the second hard drive module and put it in place of the 40GB drive that had originally shipped with the laptop. I booted up the machine and Windows XP recognized the new primary 80GB hard drive and continued to boot up completely with no problems. Every application worked after the boot up on the 'cloned' 80GB drive
I then put the 40GB hard drive in the second hard drive module and the laptop recognized it perfectly also. So, I now have an extra 40GB drive that I can sell on eBay or use for full HDD backups as long as the drive I am backing up is less than 40GB. Casper XP "clones" make great full disk backups that are bootable in less than an hour. Can't backup to CD or DVD-Rom that quick.
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November 8th, 2004 02:00
Here is an excellent info http://www.bay-wolf.com/hdmedbay-d.htm
Ratz
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November 8th, 2004 11:00
Thanks for the responses. I now have everything working as I had hoped.
Although the BayWolf website is useful, it only explains how to physically install the hard drive in the second hard drive module. The website does not offer any solutions when the hard drive isn't recognized by Windows XP after it has been slid into the laptop's D-Bay slot.
The key seems to be that the hard drive must first have at least a low level format on it for the drive to be recognized as the second hard drive when using it in the D-Bay module.
Once I plugged in BOTH USB2 cables into the back of the laptop for the external USB2 hard drive enclosure, XP Pro SP2 recognized the hard drive and allowed me to format the drive using XP Disk Management or Casper XP. Once I formatted the new drive, I took it out of the USB2 external enclosure and put the drive back into the second hard drive D-Bay module and slid the drive module into the slot, where it was recognized by Windows XP and it worked perfectly. Yea!!
I then used Casper XP to make an exact "Clone" of the smaller primary 40GB drive onto the new larger second 80GB drive. Let me tell you, Casper XP is "da bomb". With just a few easy steps to start the process, Casper XP made an exact "Bootable" clone of the smaller hard drive onto the larger hard drive in less than an hour and all from within Windows XP. Norton Ghost requires booting the machine to DOS and remembering a bunch of Dos-like commands to perform the "clone". With Casper XP it is "Click, click, done real quick".
After the hard drive "Clone" was complete, I took the 80GB hard drive out of the second hard drive module and put it in place of the 40GB drive that had originally shipped with the laptop. I booted up the machine and Windows XP recognized the new primary 80GB hard drive and continued to boot up completely with no problems. Every application worked after the boot up on the 'cloned' 80GB drive
I then put the 40GB hard drive in the second hard drive module and the laptop recognized it perfectly also. So, I now have an extra 40GB drive that I can sell on eBay or use for full HDD backups as long as the drive I am backing up is less than 40GB. Casper XP "clones" make great full disk backups that are bootable in less than an hour. Can't backup to CD or DVD-Rom that quick.
Anyway, thanks for the help.
Mark
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November 9th, 2004 00:00
My error. Link I meant to post is this one http://www.bay-wolf.com/setupmedbay.htm
Glad you have it working.
Ratz