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Cannot detect hard disk
Name: temujinn Date: June 20, 2006 at 14:54:05 Pacific OS: Win XP SP2 CPU/Ram: 1.6 Ghz P4
Comment:
I've using a single hard disk 40G with size capacity which running my windows XP SP2 system. Recently I installed another hard disk 20G with size capacity which is set as slave. I can detect both hard disk in the BIOS mode, unfortunately I can't detect the new hard disk (slave)in the disk management. Well I'm sure the hard disk was working fine before.
Plz someone guide me and very appreciate with any solutions replied. Thank You.
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: June 20, 2006 at 15:50:06 Pacific
Reply:
You probably need to partition and format it. With XP I think you do that with the disk management option. See if you can locate the partitioning feature there. I don't use XP much so if you need additional help maybe someone more familiar with it will respond.
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Response Number 2
Name: street1 Date: June 20, 2006 at 16:08:24 Pacific
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When you go to control panel in Aministrative Tools click on it then go to,Computer Management click on it-Then click on Disk Management.....Does it show there?
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Response Number 3
Name: TemuJinn Date: June 20, 2006 at 19:10:00 Pacific
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I've check in the Disk Management and still my 2nd hard disk don't appear hence in the BIOS/CMOS it shows it's detected and working fine.
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Response Number 4
Name: Teddyro Date: June 21, 2006 at 03:06:48 Pacific
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Thats because you need to make it's partitions with the xp cd.Boot with xp disk then create the partitions you want on your drive then press f3 and exit,start windows normaly,go to disk management and there will it be.......ok good luck now
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Response Number 5
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: June 21, 2006 at 13:35:57 Pacific
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Ah, good ole stubborn XP. If it had an ass there'd be hickeys all over it.
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Response Number 6
Name: street1 Date: June 21, 2006 at 15:43:18 Pacific
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Ah, good ole stubborn XP. If it had an ass there'd be hickeys all over it.
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