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Invisible Hardrive. Somewhat.
Name: Bobaloo123 Date: January 15, 2006 at 19:39:24 Pacific OS: Win 2000/xp CPU/Ram: Multiple fast and slow.
Comment:
Ive got a 40 gig wdm400 western digital hardrive that was formatted into a unknown format then locked and unlocked and now windows doesn't see it. the only thing that will see it is a dos program called HDUNLOCK, that was made for unlocking it. It shows up in device manager, but not in my computer as a drive and nothing wiull format it not even dos, or a windows 98 boot disk.
Name: Dave02 Date: January 15, 2006 at 20:28:58 Pacific
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While running under windows XP. Right click "My Computer" and choose "manage" then "disk management" then click the drive and partition the drive and then format it.
It that doesn't work. You may have to wipe it out with "G" disk and then format.
Google a search for it.
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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser Date: January 15, 2006 at 20:31:58 Pacific
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Wasn't this thing originally designed for xbox? Try this page (or similar pages - google for it) for help.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 3
Name: Bobaloo123 Date: January 16, 2006 at 15:24:42 Pacific
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No I tried to get a bigger non original harddrive to work in the xbox but that failed and now I want to just make it a pc harddrive again.
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Response Number 4
Name: Bobaloo123 Date: January 16, 2006 at 18:02:33 Pacific
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I tried G disk it sees no drive at all. I need a program that runs in windows and will see a harddrive that doesn't show up anywhere exept device manager.
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Response Number 5
Name: Zenith Date: January 17, 2006 at 09:15:06 Pacific
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Does the drive show up in the BIOS setup???
Go to bootdisk.com and get a Windows 98 bootdisk. Use fdisk to remove the partition and recreate one.
WILL POST FOR FOOD.
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Response Number 6
Name: Bobaloo123 Date: January 17, 2006 at 15:36:32 Pacific
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It shows up in Bios. I actually did go into fdisk and remove the partition but after I did that it never could be seen anymore. Except by the bios and device manager.
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Response Number 7
Name: Bobaloo123 Date: January 17, 2006 at 15:46:32 Pacific
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Ok now I have it hooked up through the USB in windows 2000 it reads it as the correct model harddrive and it puts it in disk drive in device manager, but it still doesn't show up in my computer.
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Response Number 8
Name: jubalsams Date: January 17, 2006 at 23:26:11 Pacific
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Maybe i am missing something. Did you create a new partition and format it in Disk Manager?
Best
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Response Number 9
Name: Bobaloo123 Date: January 18, 2006 at 16:14:22 Pacific
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I can't format it that is my problem. Windows doesn't see it in my coputer it only sees it device manager. And because of that I can't do anything with it.
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