A31 HDD Compatability, HTS541210H9AT00 (0A50108, 5K120)

[LGJ]

I have received a Hitachi 100 GB HDD
HTS541210H9AT00 (0A50108, 5K120) (mfg Jan. 2007)
instead of
HTS541010G9AT00 (13G1591, 5K100).
I want to use the drive in the Ultrabay, as a second drive, and not bootable. My current drive for some time is a HTS541010G9AT00, which was an Hitachi upgrade kit, using Apricorn EZ Gig II software.

The new hard drive shows up in the device manager with the model number of the drive. It says the drive is working, and that it is enabled, but it doesn't assign it a drive letter. I updated the driver online with no effect.

Is this drive compatible, and what are the pros and cons? What do I need to do to use it in this service?

Should it be jumpered to act as a slave? I was unable to find a thin jumper, and fabricated one from a number of thicknesses of folded aluminum foil, using a needle to produce holes for the pins. If a jumper is needed, what are the pros and cons of this jumper? Copper foil would be preferred, but getting that becomes another problem. I read other comments in the forum on fabricating thin jumpers, which were harder to fabricate.

I am a novice.

A31, 2652-M4U, W2k

[basketb]

You may need to initialize/partition/format your new hard drive.
I'm not sure how it works with w2k but in wxp it goes something like this:
- Go to Start->Administrative Tools->Computer Management.
- There click on "Disk management". Then you should see your existing drive and the new one at the bottom. The new one says "no partition" or something like this.
- Right click on the new drive's name (where there is a little hard drive icon) and choose "initialize".
- Then right click on the long bar on the right and choose format (or partition first and then format, if you want more than one partition on this drive).

Hope this helps.

[LGJ]

Thanks for your response. I returned the drive today, and went to see if I could delete the posting, when I found your comment. If I receive the HTS541010G9AT00, I will see if I have the same problem. I did download FWHD46, the hard drive firmware update utility, which I will probably need at some point, or fwhd3414.exe, which is the firmware update specific to this drive. I could indeed have other issues.