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External Hard drive does not auto mount

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Hello. I recently purchased an external USB2 Mad Dog Enclosure and placed a 80 gig HD in it. I cannot get it to auto mount. I have to go in properties..manage and activate the disk each time I startup (WinXP). There must be some way to make it automount, as my 160 gig External WesternDigtal mounts whenever I turn it on or if I turn it on during a startup.
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greetings

it might be your selection of master,slave, cable select
try it with out any jumper also

some of them are crapshoots

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I tried all settings but none would auto mount. It's a WD and Master is set to have all the pins removed: master w/slave present and slave and cable select. They all worked if I went to properties...manage and activated the disk. I wonder what WD does to make them automount, in the case of the WD 160 external USB2 hard drive. Seems like alot of trouble. I take it this is a common problem?
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