Hard Drive Jumpers

[stevelenihan]

I have a 80GB Seagate Barracuda ATA IV that i want to hook up to my pc, but somehow iv lost the jumpers! All i need is one jumper to set it as a master drive. Anybody know where i can but jumpers?

 

[jdon285]

Do you have any old boards, cards or drives laying around? Or any local pc store or repair shop may just give ya one. I've never bought any so I'm not sure who has them, maybe try radio shack?

 

[stevelenihan]

No all my other drives are SATA. I'll try the local pc store though(no radio shack in ireland )

 

[Ste]

Im sure you could just use a bit of foil.
Buying jumpers is not worth it.

 

[Snake-Eyes]

You don't need to use jumpers. None of my hard drives have them.

 

[stevelenihan]

my hdd works for a few boots without it and then isn't recognised by XP. Without the jumpers its set as slave but needs to be master i think. Gonna try that foil suggestion