Glad its working for you.
"Sirboy" <Sirboy.33pab4@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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> Hi Colin, thanks for your advice. I got the Vantec enclosure and a
> Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB 16MB SATAII hard drive.
>
> The combo worked like a charm 
. I had to set the hard drive jumper
> setting to SATA150 for the eSATA to work.
>
> On Vista, the drive was recognized immediately and I could see in my
> computer. But on my XP box I had to use partition magic to partition and
> format the drive first.
>
>
> --
> Sirboy