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Can someone please help me with a friends Hard Drive.

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Shagga

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My friend bought a new Hard Drive to upgrade his system and I offered to install it for him.

Now it's a MAXTOR 80GB ATA133 Drive. Is there something I should do before trying to install a drive this size. I have installed many drives b4 but not this size. I can't for the life of me get WinXP to Show the drive in Explorer.

I know all about, jumpers setting the drive as a master etc but no joy at all. I even tried to install a new WinXP on the drive and I can't get the installation to go past the Press F8 to continue when I boot of the original WinXP CD......

Kinda perplexed me this one.....any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Regards. 😉
 
Most of new MB's BIOS can recognize and handle this size without any problem.
If the MB is old (Socket 5,7 or PII, etc.), it can't seem to detect the drive, then you need to use the hard disk utilities (which you can get from Maxtor website) and to format and install EZ-Bios for it. Then everything's fine.

If you just plug it in w/o doing anything, the system won't see the HDD. You can format it from there using Partition Magic, or Disk Management (win2k, xp). IMO, you should format it in NTSF for hdd that size.
 
bacillus - Yes it is an additional Drive for the system.

QTPie - Yes the motherboard does recognise the drive in the BIOS. I know I need to format the drive and partition it etc but the drive doesn't make itself available. When you boot from a CD or Floopy all the Utils are installed to a ramdrive, but on a virtual drive on C:\! FDisk doesn't even find a drive to Partition either....

Still confused...I am! 🙁


 
IIRc, you need to got to control panel/admistrative tools>computer management>disk management
you should see the new hdd in the lower right pane. right click it & choose format!
 
Thanks, I'll mention that. The problem is WinXp is failing to recognise that the drive even exists, so I don't know if it will show up under disk management! I'll check it out tonight, thanx for that.

Regards,

Shagz
 
You'll be fine with winxp. It won't see the drive until you go to Disk Management to format it. If the drive can be seen under Device Manager, then Disk Management will see it. You should format it in NTSF.
 
make sure everything is connected right (amazingly its easy to overllok this!) and look into upgrading the bios (re-flashing it) or setting the capacity limitation jumper to on.
 
I use partition Magic to format all my drives. I just try to see if you can fi you can get partition magic and see if u can format ur drive using that.

 
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