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System Does Not Recognize Drive!!!!
Name: johnny_gq Date: November 13, 2002 at 22:40:14 Pacific OS: winxp CPU/Ram: p4 2.5 512ddr
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I currently have a 120gig hard drive and i tried to install an 80gig as a secondary, ever thing works fine but win xp does not recognize it, you can see that the bios detects and even under hard disk drives in the control panel but it is not an active drive, so i cant use it, please help!!!
Name: david Date: November 13, 2002 at 22:57:54 Pacific
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is it formated say fat 32? if not it will not show up in my computer area.. put it as a master set the jumpers that way. take out your other one the master, boot up and format the new one it with this format tool. http://www.startdisk.com/Web1/ubd/ubd.htm
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Response Number 2
Name: johnny_gq Date: November 13, 2002 at 23:02:46 Pacific
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see thats the thing, i've formated with ntfs before on another computer, so what i did was just took the hard drive on moved it on my computer, there is data on that hard drive that i need, so i dont want to format it, but if i take it over to the old computer it works again as a slave drive
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Response Number 3
Name: shaun Date: November 14, 2002 at 13:52:52 Pacific
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Xp Pro probably has it listed in Disk Management as a foreign drive. That's all.
Right Click on My computer, go to Manage, click on Disk Management. You should find it here. All you need to do is get XP to assign it a drive letter and bring it out of being foreign. This will fix it!
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