[promethius9594]

wait, several things first...

1) jumpers are cheap, like five cents a piece or something.

2) its probably not jumpers causing the problem.

3) is the drive on the same ISB Cable (the long thin cable with two pluggy things on it) as the hard drive? okay, now is the drive plugged into the plug on the end of the chord, or the plug in the middle of the chord? why is this important? well, if its set on master, and you have it plugged into the middle plug, it wont work, because that middle plug is for the slave drive. if you have it on a different ISB Cable than your hardrive, try switching its position on the ISB Cable (and temporarily leaving off other things from that cable). fire up the computer and see if it works.

5) leaving other devices unplugged, take a jumper from an unplugged CD Drive and use it to set the jumper settings (which can be found online on the specs sheet for your device) see if that works. set all your jumpers appropriately based on where they are on the ISB wire (end plug = master, middle plug = slave) and retry firing up the computer.

if that doesnt work, then its not the jumper. how old is your computer and when you bought the drive did it come with a cd? small companies drivers are often not included with windows. Also, does the drive work without installing the driver? have you tried just plugging something in to see how it goes? finally, and i know this sounds dumb but computer problems are sometimes simple: when you plugged in your drive, did you remember to plug in the power cord as well as the ISB Cable? If your drive isnt getting power the computer will not recognize it.