I bought an IDE to USB Cable for my Hard drive, and I'm having trouble with it. Help?

I bought a cable that would connect my IDE hard drive to my USB 2.0 port. In the bottom right hand corner of the screen, it shows that it's connected, but it's not in "My Computer". The installation guide just said to set the jumpers to Master, and plug it in. No drivers were needed since I have XP. I've also tried setting the jumpers to slave and it's still doesn't work. I've restarted with it plugged in, but that just messes things up because my computer doesn't know which drive to boot from, so i have to go to the BIOS and tell it to boot from C, because when the jumpers are set to Master, I have two Master Hard drives. I've also restarted with it plugged in as a Slave. I bought this on eBay, so I'm expecting a very slow response time, so I wanted to see if any one here knew.

I bought an IDE to USB Cable for my Hard drive, and I'm having trouble with it. Help?
restart you pc as it is starting back up gold down the del key


then enter the bios system


in there your see in the list


IDE


go in that part and set your new hard to to auto slave


you do that by hiting the page down/up


key then you hit the esc


key then the f10


key then save a save settings box will pop up


click ok to save


and restart your pc


hard drive no2 is installed
Reply:maybe theres a video setting for computer preferences
Reply:try getting an external encloser - that would make things easier.
Reply:Try this first before the radical approaches suggested. It is very common for drives to not get a drive letter!:





Most likely the drive just doesn't have a letter associated with it.


On the start menu click on run


Clear whatever is there and put in compmgmt.msc and hit enter


In the window that opens there will be a storage section


Choose disk management from the storage section


In the bottom right hand section see if there is a drive with no letter assigned...you might have to scroll


Right click it and then choose Change Drive Letters and Paths.


Give it a drive letter (the box will be blank).


You may have to restart





If the drive isn't listed in that disk management piece, you have bigger problems!

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