Tech: lost hard drive ?

Subject: RE: Tech: lost hard drive ?
From: Bert
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 04:43 PM

Is it plug and play? if not take it back and get one that is. I had similar problems with a mail order drive. never did get it to work even aftr spending hours on the phone to both the maker of the drive and Microsoft.

Subject: RE: Tech: lost hard drive ?
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Date: 11 Feb 05 - 04:37 PM

Ummm, It's on the Primary Channel you said, but is it the Slave drive? Oh! Perhaps both the CD and the Hard Drive are both thinking they are the Master Drive? And The CD is in Position 1?

Subject: RE: Tech: lost hard drive ?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:58 PM

fdisk and format it.

Subject: RE: Tech: lost hard drive ?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:56 PM

Georff - has the new drive been partitioned and formatted?

Subject: Tech: lost hard drive ?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:51 PM

I've just added some new equipment and need some advice.
Computer is a Windows PC running WinME, with a CD-writer/DVD Rom drive and a 30GB Hard Drive. The 30BG is split into three partitions, C:Windows/D:Data/E:Programmes.
I've just added a DVD burner and a 120GB (UDMA/ATA133) second Hard Drive. I put the original CD and Hard Drive on primary IDE controller. The new drive and DVD burner are on the secondary IDE controller.
The DVD burner reads and plays CDs okay. The computer set-up recognises the new hard drive, but Windows is totally ignoring it.
Any ideas what I need to do to get windows to admit it is there?
Quack!
Geoff the Duck.