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PC won't recognise New 80 Gig HD
Name: frankrh41 Date: July 8, 2004 at 23:24:33 Pacific OS: P3 CPU/Ram: 500/400
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: July 9, 2004 at 00:20:54 Pacific
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The bios doesn't see it? You'll either need a bios upgrade, an add-on ATA card or use the drive overlay on the disk that came with the drive.
If the bios sees it but windows doesn't, that's usually because it needs to be partitioned before it gets assigned a drive letter. It won't show up in 'my computer' until it's parititioned.
You need to use the updated fdisk on that drive. It's available here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263044
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Response Number 2
Name: johnwaren Date: July 9, 2004 at 03:58:19 Pacific
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what mobo are u using(Manufacturer/Model)?
try to check ur mobo manufacturer for bios upgrade.
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