Thread: About 80 GB Seagate Barracuda hard drive

I purchased an 80 GB Seagate Barracuda hard drive (ultra ATA) in 2005. I used it for some time and put it away for about a year. When I tried to convert it into an external hard disk using a casing, it was not detected by XP. It showed the 'Detected new hardware' message and called it a 'USB to IDE' something. When I open the Device Manager it shows a 'USB Mass it in My Computer or Disk Management. I plugged it into my PC the normal way and all I got was 31.4 GB. Thank you

Please check if the hard drives jumpers located next to the IDE /PATA cable connector (see attached image) are positioned properly. The drive should be set to primary master mode. Also study the jumper values given on the label of the hard drive. If all is fine, then your drive should be checked on another computer or another hard drive should
be connected to the external casing to determine the culprit.