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Formatting my slave
Name: Mads Smith (by HoneyMonster) Date: November 2, 2005 at 03:33:48 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: 1600/512
Comment:
Hi.
I just bought a new harddrive and I wish to format the old one. When I try to format through Windows (right-click on icon i My Computer and pressing "format"), it just hangs and nothing is deleted.
Name: GX1 Man Date: November 2, 2005 at 16:19:25 Pacific
Reply:
You must have both drives jumpered correctly for master and slave. If your O/S is on the master you can format the slave. (It muist be recognized by BIOS first.)
Alternatively you can boot from a floppy and format it, but make sure you format the correct one!
You can avoid many of these Windows problems with Linux. Linspire eases the transition for new users
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