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How do I make windows detect my hard drive
Name: Favian Date: December 6, 1999 at 19:29:38 Pacific
Comment:
I'm having trouble. I'm using my new hard drive as a slave drive it shows up on my BIOS but windows wont detect it. It wont show up as a letter! Please help! THANKS!
Name: Jeff Date: December 6, 1999 at 19:34:27 Pacific
Reply:
are you sure you formatted the harddrive? then go to control panels add new hardware let windows detect it... it'll probably find it then
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Response Number 2
Name: Al Date: December 6, 1999 at 20:37:37 Pacific
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Favian, You will have to partition drive before formatting it. Windows will not recognize a drive without partitions. If partitioned but not formatted, windows will find it but will not read it. Use fdisk at dos prompt, be sure to select drive 2. Al
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Response Number 3
Name: mselfm38 Date: December 6, 1999 at 22:36:29 Pacific
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Al's got it, I'm going through the same thing right now. you can check in controll panel-systems-hard drives and hard drive controller to see if it is recognizing that its there, make sure the jumpers are right if it doesn't, if fdisk does not diplay your 2 drive, then check bios, mine read my ibm drive# under secondary slave, not primary,then i changed it to user mode and then read secondary slave instead of primary slave and i was able to partition it,set primary then do extended w/logical drives. now my problem is formating, can i format each partition in fat16 and another in 32, also can i do this in window by right clicking on the drive letter then click format?
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Response Number 4
Name: steve Date: December 7, 1999 at 11:27:07 Pacific
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If you plugged the new HD into the same ribbon cable that your origional HD is plugged into...you need to set the jumper on the new HD to "slave"...
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