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Name: whyyougotta
Date: June 18, 2006 at 18:00:13 Pacific
OS: XP Home
CPU/Ram: 768ish
Product: eMachine
Comment:

I bought a computer with XP home. Its set as master drive

now I added my old harddrive to it and set it as the slave drive. It has win2000 on it and I need to know how to reformat it clean for the computer to recognize it

Can anyone help me?



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Response Number 1
Name: Sabertooth
Date: June 18, 2006 at 18:11:26 Pacific
Reply:

Try using the 'disk management' console.

0. Rightclick 'My Computer' & hit 'Manage'

1. Then click on "Disk Management".

2. From the right pane in that Window, rightclick on the drive you'd like to format and then do it.


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Response Number 2
Name: whyyougotta
Date: June 18, 2006 at 18:20:57 Pacific
Reply:

YAY thank you
BUT

its a 200 gig HD and it is only showing as 31gigs

how can i fix this?


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Response Number 3
Name: whyyougotta
Date: June 18, 2006 at 18:43:48 Pacific
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i read that there is a 130gig barrier
the computer has a 100 gig and i am adding a 200 gig samsugn,, how can i get past this barrier?


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Response Number 4
Name: whyyougotta
Date: June 18, 2006 at 19:19:34 Pacific
Reply:

ok if anyone cares,

the slave pin is not needed,, take it out and the gigs will appear...yip


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Response Number 5
Name: rvanhorne
Date: June 18, 2006 at 20:39:56 Pacific
Reply:

how old is the machine?bios?

axel


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Response Number 6
Name: Sabertooth
Date: June 19, 2006 at 07:15:08 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks for letting us know how it all went.


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