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my second hard drive dont work

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Name: eXistenZ
Date: April 26, 2003 at 12:56:49 Pacific
OS: duno
CPU/Ram: duno
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Wel I installed my hard drive in my computer by putting the IDE cable in the rite place and then the power cable in the new hard drive, Then wen the computer booted up it worked like normal and wen it came onto the desktop it did this thing that said it detected something new and did this litle loading bar and i thought ok then thats good. Then i looked in my computer on the desktop and ther was only the c: drive. so i went 2 control panel and went on asdd new hardware and it cant detect it. any ideas P.s i did set the hard drive to slave.



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Response Number 1
Name: mesich
Date: April 26, 2003 at 13:21:32 Pacific
Reply:

Go into the bios and ensure that the
Primary Master
Primary Slave
Secondary Master
Secondary Slave
is all set to Auto.

Mesich


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Response Number 2
Name: JPW
Date: April 26, 2003 at 16:16:16 Pacific
Reply:

The drive will need to be Fdisk & formatted before it will show up in Windows.


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Response Number 3
Name: mesich
Date: April 26, 2003 at 16:55:05 Pacific
Reply:

Ooops, nice catch JPW.

As JPW stated the drive needs to be partitioned and formatted before it is recognized by Windows.

If you need help if partitioning and formatting check out the link below.

How to Partition and Format a Hard Drive

HTH

Best Regards,
Mesich


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