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New harddrive 120 gig
Name: john paul davis Date: November 14, 2003 at 22:45:18 Pacific OS: WIN XP CPU/Ram: 1.3 GIG 800 MB
Comment:
I bought a 120 gig hd when i used the disk it frizes up on me when i try using it fdisk dont work stops at the begining. i set it up as secondery saying 34 gigs works fine. is this got something todo with xp ?
Name: rc Date: November 14, 2003 at 23:43:33 Pacific
Reply:
If you set it up as a slave why are you trying to fdisk. my computer>click on explore tab> select slave disk and format. Xp can handle large drives up to 120gigs without any problems and larger if partitioned.
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Response Number 2
Name: tonyinbrazil (by tonyhenry260860) Date: November 15, 2003 at 09:29:51 Pacific
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I bought a 120GB hard disk a few months back. I was running a Pentium 3 w/ 256RAM.
The system wasn't recognizing the new HD when I tried to install it.
Turned out that the P-3 motherboard wasn't compatible with HDs greater than 80GBs.
I had to buy a new m/b and processor. Now everything seems fine.
I'm using a 20GB C: as a master and the 120 D: drive as a slave -- mainly for storage.
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Response Number 3
Name: Chad Date: November 15, 2003 at 15:19:41 Pacific
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Try going to control panel /administrative tools/ computer management/ find storage and use disk management. You don't use fdisk with windows xp or 2k this replaces it.
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