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Hard Drive not showing
Name: soundguymark Date: July 24, 2006 at 05:22:14 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro CPU/Ram: AMD Duron, 512MB ram Product: Custom
Comment:
Hiya Guys,
I have jus installed a new ATA hardrive in my PC, jumper settings all right and shows up in the bios and device manager but not in my computer in windows, anyone know what i could be doing wrong??
Name: Richard59 Date: July 24, 2006 at 06:45:56 Pacific
Reply:
Is it partitioned and formatted? In control panel > admin tools > computer management select DISK MANAGEMENT. Rightclick on the new drive and you can partition and format from there.
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Response Number 2
Name: lukeles Date: July 25, 2006 at 19:19:42 Pacific
Reply:
yes
and assign a drive letter.
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Response Number 3
Name: rembrDOS Date: July 28, 2006 at 12:42:06 Pacific
Reply:
I am having the same problem on Puter. The slave drive E: was working fine but somehow got disconnected from the IDE cable.
Device manager lists it. It is not listed in computer disk management to assign a drive letter. I can here the disk running.
Should I run any tests on it? Change Bios Settings? I am still learning things about XP-Professional. Any Advice is welcomed.
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