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Name: TrickYAH Date: July 18, 2006 at 13:01:42 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro CPU/Ram: A64 3700+ @ 2,8GHz / 2GB Product: me.
Comment:
Hi,
I just got a new HDD, a Maxtor DiamondMax10 Sata300...
I left my old one (IDE 160GB) as primary IDE master.. then put my new Sata HDD in SATA 1, In BIOS it's detected as the Third Primary master...
So i booted up but it won't appear in explorer.. why? It's detected in BIOS and even in device mannager but not in explorer :(
Name: Richard59 Date: July 18, 2006 at 13:19:54 Pacific
Reply:
Needs to be partitioned and formatted before explorer will see it. Use Disk Management tool Start> Control Panel > Admin Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management
I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.
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Response Number 2
Name: TrickYAH Date: July 18, 2006 at 13:32:11 Pacific
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