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Slaved HDD not in My computer
Name: Dave02 Date: December 30, 2003 at 18:15:34 Pacific OS: Win XP Home CPU/Ram: P4 2.4ghz/512 RAM
Comment:
I have slaved a 40 gig HDD to my my system's 80 gig HDD. I want to pull some files from it and transfer them over to the system HDD. The slaved HDD came from another working system. It has win XP Home installed on it as well. The slaved HDD is seen by the BIOS. It also shows up in disk management as a healthy 37 gig avtive NTFS file system. There is no drive letter assigned to it and it does not show up in My Computer. When I highlight the drive in disk management, and right click it, All options are greyed out except for delete partition. I don't want to delete partition. I want it to show up in My Computer so that I may browse it like it were another folder on my P.C. Any help would be appreciated. There is something odd about how it is seen in disk management. It shows up with two partitions. One is a 32 mb FAT system and the rest is a 37 gig NTFS file system. When this HDD was in the other working system. It only had the one 37 gig NTFS file system. It didn't have multiple partitions. I am wondering where this 32 mb FAT partition came from. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any and all of your help.
Name: Lestat8266 Date: December 30, 2003 at 19:17:01 Pacific
Reply:
The 40 gig was not using any type of bios program, such as EZ-BIOS, that would force an older bios to recognize its true size, was it?
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Response Number 2
Name: Dave02 Date: December 30, 2003 at 19:26:31 Pacific
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No! No BIOS software was installed on the HDD. There was no need for that.
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Response Number 3
Name: Scott B. Date: December 30, 2003 at 20:08:14 Pacific
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Want kind of PC did this hdd come from? Was it an old compaq?
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Response Number 4
Name: Dave02 Date: December 30, 2003 at 20:14:13 Pacific
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It was a DELL Deminsion desktop 4400. 2 years old. P4 1.7 gig. Intel motherboard.
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Response Number 5
Name: yankanuk Date: December 30, 2003 at 20:20:22 Pacific
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Could be a bad ribbon cable. I had that problem awhile back
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Response Number 6
Name: Dave02 Date: December 30, 2003 at 21:07:28 Pacific
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I have tried a different ribbon cable. That didn't help either.
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Response Number 7
Name: setishock Date: January 3, 2004 at 18:53:23 Pacific
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It came from a Dell, and most likely it will only work with a dell. Some computer companies make stuff that only works in their system. Kinda make you think some one over at dell and gateway used to work for atari or comadore...
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