"G. Morgan" wrote in message
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If it still does not show up, move it to another PC and verify it
works.
You will need an adaptor to install it in a tower. USB or 2.5" -
3.5"
SATA/IDE adaptors are available.


Mine looks like this:
http://compare.ebay.com/like/1207387...pes&va r=sbar
I added a 3.5" to 2.5" adapter board for its pigtail laptop drive
power connector, for drives that take over 500mA.

In XP Control Panel Administrative Tools Computer Management
Disk Management you have to Initialize (rt-click) the bare drive
before you can partition and format it.

This is more powerful, but XP's built-in controls are enough to set up
a blank wiped hard drive:
http://www.partition-tool.com/

I usually partition 100MB FAT32 for DOS and diagnostics, 15 - 25GB for
XP or 7 and the rest for user data, which then isn't lost when I
reload the operating system from a backup.

jsw

Jim Wilkins wrote:

Mine looks like this:
http://compare.ebay.com/like/1207387...pes&va r=sbar
I added a 3.5" to 2.5" adapter board for its pigtail laptop drive
power connector, for drives that take over 500mA.

I've got one of those. I hooked it up backwards one day and fed 5V from
the power supply to a USB port, blew the port! The lappy was still
under warrantee, so I got a new MOBO when they returned it. I just
played stupid, "I don't know what happened!".