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unable to detect hard drive
Name: Spawn16 Date: November 14, 2002 at 11:07:46 Pacific OS: windows 98 CPU/Ram: pentium 3 550, 128mb
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Hi
i'm having problems, installing this 40gb hard drive of mine. i've put it in and when i run through my bios its detected and its shown as the slave drive which is right. But when i start up windows it says its undetected and i have no idea how to fix it. i've made sure the cables are secure but still nothing. May seem like a simple question but i have no clue. help will be appreciated
Name: Dave Mills Date: November 14, 2002 at 11:15:11 Pacific
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If this is a NEW drive, have you partitioned and formatted it?
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Response Number 2
Name: Doc Date: November 14, 2002 at 11:25:41 Pacific
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Did you set your HD's jumpers to slave ? Check on your HD's manufacturer to see the correct settings.
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Response Number 3
Name: Spawn16 Date: November 14, 2002 at 12:00:41 Pacific
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i did set the jumpers to slave with the correct settings and yes its a new hard drive but i can't format it.. since no letter has been assigned to it yet..only the bios detects it.
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Response Number 4
Name: Kurt Date: November 14, 2002 at 12:30:36 Pacific
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You need to partition it before it will be assigned a drive letter.
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Response Number 5
Name: Spawn16 Date: November 14, 2002 at 12:32:59 Pacific
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so how would i go about partiting it? using fdisk i guess? or is there a better program to do that?
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Response Number 6
Name: budm Date: November 14, 2002 at 13:00:48 Pacific
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did the drive come with the utility disk? Maxtor will have Maxblast disk for setting up the new drive.
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Response Number 7
Name: Spawn16 Date: November 14, 2002 at 13:11:16 Pacific
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i checked out the maxtor website.. it didn't come with a disk for setting up the drive but i saw maxblast.. but i couldn't get it to work cause it would come up with the message "interface not supported"
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Response Number 8
Name: dj Date: November 14, 2002 at 13:41:06 Pacific
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if all else fails- try to install windows98se on it. Because after so far into the installation it will tell you that it can't go on because the drive isn't formatted and will ask you if you want to format it now and you click yes. I don't know for sure that it'sll work, but I do know that it happened to me when I reinstalled and hadn't formatted
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Response Number 9
Name: dj Date: November 14, 2002 at 13:44:06 Pacific
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oh- I didn't finsish. I meant to say that after it's formatted you can always cancel installation. I know it's not the right way to do this but my knowledge is limited and I would try it if I had no other answers
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Response Number 10
Name: Spawn16 Date: November 14, 2002 at 16:12:15 Pacific
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does anybody else have any other suggestions?
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Response Number 11
Name: Patrick Bozarth Date: November 14, 2002 at 16:23:52 Pacific
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Use Fdisk
Say yes to allow large disk support.
Now pick your new drive and make a primary partition.
Reboot the computer and then format your new partition.
Reboot the computer again and you should be good to go..
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