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grr...ATOT I need a puter nerd to help me

rudeguy

rudeguy

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I cant get windows to find my new HD....I know there are other places to post this, but you guys seem to be alot more help than the rest
 
First, you have to make sure your bios sees it.
Make sure the jumper is set properly.
And you have to format it before you can boot to winders and try to see it...
 
Originally posted by: rudeguy5757
I cant...for some reason my floppy disk took a crap on me, can windows do that for me?
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Obviously not since windows does not recognize the drive.😉 What is the drive installed as? Primary slave, Secondary master, secondary slave? What other IDE components are installed and at what configuration?

 
Originally posted by: 3L33T32003
First, you have to make sure your bios sees it.
Make sure the jumper is set properly.
And you have to format it before you can boot to winders and try to see it...
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Fdisk it, then format it 🙂
 
Im going to assume you have windows xp and you are logged on as administrator.

First, go into Control panel, then adminstrative tools.

Then Computer Management. Goto Storage, then Disc management.

Click on your disk id number at the bottom, right click then partition, or create partition or something. Make it the maximum size, and let it format it automatically after creating the partition.

This will work even if you can't see the drive number in Windows Explorer as long as the bios sets it up. If it doesn't there, then you will need to change bios settings.

Make sure you aren't doing this to your system drive or another drive, make sure its unpartitioned space, or unformatted space.
 
Originally posted by: minendo
Originally posted by: rudeguy5757
I cant...for some reason my floppy disk took a crap on me, can windows do that for me?
Click to expand...
Obviously not since windows does not recognize the drive.😉 What is the drive installed as? Primary slave, Secondary master, secondary slave? What other IDE components are installed and at what configuration?
Click to expand...

first off bios sees it just fine, and its secondary slave, i think...right now I am running my c drive as primary master, with my F (80gig) as slave, and my D🙁cdr) and F🙁new drive) as slave...and oh yeah...i have xp pro
 
have you tried shining a flashlight on it? flares help too, or sometimes a magnifying glass. my computer has poor vision too, and it's hard for it to find devices sometimes.

😀
 
Originally posted by: dolph
have you tried shining a flashlight on it? flares help too, or sometimes a magnifying glass. my computer has poor vision too, and it's hard for it to find devices sometimes.

😀
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oh yeah...first thing I tried...I also b*tch slapped it...cause it acts dumb, just like some people on here...and sorry I am just mad cause I got 180 gigs sittin in my box I cant use
 
Originally posted by: Slasher2k
Im going to assume you have windows xp and you are logged on as administrator.

First, go into Control panel, then adminstrative tools.

Then Computer Management. Goto Storage, then Disc management.

Click on your disk id number at the bottom, right click then partition, or create partition or something. Make it the maximum size, and let it format it automatically after creating the partition.

This will work even if you can't see the drive number in Windows Explorer as long as the bios sets it up. If it doesn't there, then you will need to change bios settings.

Make sure you aren't doing this to your system drive or another drive, make sure its unpartitioned space, or unformatted space.
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ooh you man you...you big ol' puter knowin man!!!!

LOL that worked!!!! thanks slasher...i owe you big time
 
i'm gonna say it's not partitioned. and yes u can do it in windows. u can also actually just boot to a win98 cd and fdisk it. but u can do it slasher's way too.
 
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