wouldn't do that.. it wasn't there... but there was me, tryung to use an unpartitioned, unformatted clean drive. silly. very n00b mistake. Not one i would have made in the past.. lol @me.. stuck it in another rig as a plain IDE, partitioned and formatted using win2k setup disc, all sweet now. lol
muchas gracias anyway lol
EDIT: few notes on this caddy. It was cheap. £8 for a powered USB2 3.5" caddy. funnily enough the 2.5" ones were cheaper, but this one fitted drives i have. Now i can remember when even top brand parts didnt come with screws to fit HDs in - you only got HD screws with cases, and sometimes with the HD itself (some had none) - this caddy comes with its own screwdriver. Nice touch that, although i didnt really need it. The manual is typical taiwanese carp - a 6" square piece of waxed paper with a few heiroglyphs and some poorly arranged taiwanglish - but it ain't rocket science. The power brick (not a wall wart thank god) seems to be pretty well made, and once i'd set the drive up correctly, sticking it all together and connecting was a doddle.
I'm sure most of us have spare drives laying around - the 120gb HITACHI GXP IDE drive i've got in this was merely the largest of the four spares i have (120, 80, 30, 3.2) - it came to me for free about 2yr ago and i've never been bothered to use it, but with the get of 13mbps bb connection, i need all the space i can get. It's also useful to take with my laptop, as that doubles my usable space when going to fellow geek mates houses to share stuff.. lol
Think about it. A tenner, plus whatever old drive you have lying around.. instant big portable storage, and if it gets nicked or broken, it don't matter as much as, say, a grand's worth of pc
Could do with some anti-shock mounts though.. gunna look at putting lil rubber grommets on to suspend the HD slightly. Should cut down on the (very, very tiny) noise too
