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Thread #78328 Message #1408128
Posted By: GUEST,Geoff the Duck
13-Feb-05 - 11:39 AM
Thread Name: Tech: lost hard drive ?
Subject: RE: Tech: lost hard drive ?
Thanks for all the suggestions so far. It looks as if the problem might be the drive not being partitioned.
John on Kansas - I couldn't find a "Device Manager" within Control Panel, but found System Information via the "Start Menu" [ Start - Programmes - Accessories - System Tools - System Information... ]. This gives me the "Microsoft Help" screen. In the section the "System Summary - Components - Storage - Disks" Gives me :-
Description GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE47
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model IDE DISK TYPE47
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk media
Partitions 3
Size 28.63 GB (30,736,613,376 bytes)
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 12.18 GB (13,078,162,944 bytes)
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 13.41 GB (14,394,240,000 bytes)
Partition Disk #0, Partition #2
Partition Size 3.03 GB (3,257,210,880 bytes)
Description GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE80
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model IDE DISK TYPE80
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk media
Partitions 0
Size 114.50 GB (122,942,324,736 bytes)
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I presume this tells me that it recognises that the second hard drive is there, but is not yet partitioned.
I'll post again when I have done some more checking of things.
Nutty - that link you gave seems to contain useful stuff - I will read it carefully before doing much else.
Quack
GtD.