Installing a new external hard drive

First change the jumper to Master. It is usually set to Cable Select for internal hard drives.

Then for Windows 2000/XP, do the following:

• Right click on My Computer
• Choose Manage (This will open the Computer Management window).
• Go to the Storage category and select Disk Management
• Right click the new drive (usually listed as Hard Disk 1) and "initialize"
• You now have the option to partition and format the drive.
• The default settings of Primary Partition and NTFS- Quick Format are recommended for most users.