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MCE wont recognize Slave Hard drive
Ralph Mowery rmow...@ctc.net alt comp hardware I finally broke down and bought a new hard drive. I bought a Western Digital 80 GB (WD800JB-8MB cache). My computer won't recognize the new drive. Do I need a WD driver? I tried the WD site with out much luck. I messed around with the jumpers on my old drive and the

XP does not recognize second hard drive
I installed a Western Digital 80GB second hard drive in an HP Pavilion 6630 running Win 98SE. I manually entered it into the Bios as a primary slave drive (my CD is the secondary primary drive), and the information has survived numerous reboots. I used the installation software, which presumably formatted the drive

Formatting new hard drive but can't get BIOS to recognize CD Rom
Now the current status is when I insert my hard drive in laptop. My laptop does not even recognize the hard drive. My laptop just hangs on at the BIOS and doesn't go beyond that. No warning...no error.....it sucks ! Any idea what may be causing this problem? I can read stuff from the harddrive, if I connect it

fdisk does not recognize hard drive
Maxim S. Shatskih ma...@storagecraft.com comp arch storage I've just reinstalled windows, My MotherBoard detects the 150 GB Western Digital with no problems, but in windows nothing. XP SP2 on Asus P5P800 mobo (865PE chipset) recognized 2 Seagate SATA 160GB drives fine. Maybe this is the chipset/BIOS issue.

max. size hard drive that computer will recognize?
The computer froze, I had to turn it off and back on, now it won't recognize the primary master hard drive which is the only one in the computer. This computer has many problems but I use it just for just for a extra on the network. What could make that happen all of a sudden when nothing changed? No A drive in it,

failure to recognize hard drive
"mstead" wrote: I just added a SATA HD to a system with an IDE HD. Bios sees it, Device Manager sees it, but it doesn't show in My Computer. I would format it but when I run Disk Management only the first HD and DVD drive show. Any ideas? They are both Western Digital Drives. #1 60GB IDE system drive,

XPProfessional upgrade does not recognize my second hard drive
s. keeling keel...@spots.ab.ca linux debian laptop Incoming from Hadar Pedhazur: s. keeling wrote: Perhaps you should post your /etc/lilo.conf, the output of "mount" (in the running Xandros), and perhaps "fdisk -l /dev/your_boot_drive". Thanks for your continued help. Here are the results of the those three

Won't recognize new WD hard drive
I have windows 98 installed on drive C: I installed a second hard drive and installed XP on it. XP recognizes both the C and D drive but no matter what I do Windows 98 will not recognize that there is a drive D: installed. I'm currently trying to format the Drive D: because of problems. However, while booted in

Help - new motherboard won't recognize hard drive!
The drive is not recognized in the disk drives and no drive letter is assigned. So kind of hard to list it as removable when it won't even list period. Thanks anyway. Just to double-check - have you tried rebooting with the card installed? With the above problem, Windows would see the drive if it were installed at

win 98 Explorer does not recognize audio CD files -- HELP!
And, there was a reference in Autoexec.bat that I needed to change (for a CD-R/W drive letter). It also will not change references that are binary, but those are generally in MRU lists & will auto-adjust in time. Here's my experience in changing a drive letter-- no trouble with "W:\", since the change.

New PC won't recognize a second hard drive
However, when I =>highlight the particular drive and press Enter, I can see =>that it does a 'read' of the HD and posts the configuration. =>I always thought pressing Enter was necessary. => =>Wesley Aman wrote: =>> =>> Recently I installed a 60GB hard drive. I have an ASUS P5A MB, and =>> have flashed the 1011

Vista Backup won't recognize external WD hard drive
Mike M...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp general Is the drive formated in fat 16 or fat 32 ?? "sdhall01" wrote: I have a Western Digital Passport external hard drive attached thru a USB2 port to a Dell Inspiron 3800 running XP Pro. The device manager says the drive is working, but it says the

Windows 2000 does not recognize my second hard drive.
I think that there is more going on here than is realized. rb wrote: AJ wrote: I noticed the failure to recognize happens when I have the keyboard pluged in. If I don't have a keyboard it detects the hard drive. Any ideas? Thank you for your time and words. George Results are common like that when the jumper is set

EIDEMAXII card does not recognize 10 Gb Hard Drive
I replaced the hard drive, did a new install on a newly formatted hard drive. I installed Win95B from the CD. But windows does not show that there is a cdrom installed. There is no drive letter for it, it is not listed in the Device Manager. CMOS shows it is there on boot up. It has a start button on the cdrom and

thinkpad 600 won't recognize pcmcia hard drive
I need to format my hard drive, but the problem is that when I try to boot from the XP installation disk it doesn't recognize the HDs. This also happens with other boot CDs I've tried. The drives themselves are fully functional when I boot from them. When I entered BIOS, I saw that there is no Primary IDE Master

Intermittent problem - Won't recognize 2nd hard drive
philo ph...@plazaearth.com microsoft public win95 general discussion win95 *can* easily use a 30 gig drive however win95a can only use fat16 (and not fat32) so you'd have to divide the drive up into 2 gig partitions with win95b and above you may use fat32 and use the entire drive as one partition if you want

Windows won't recognize new hard drive
Jim On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:42:23 -0500, "Jetro" <no_s...@internet.com> wrote: Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) is an interface between a computer's start-up program or BIOS (basic input/output system) and the computer hard disk. It is a feature of the Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics

OS X wont recognize 2nd hard drive
When installing any service pack under windows 2000 workstation my secondary drive is not recognized. It will state I must format the drive. If I uninstall the service pack I am able to see the drive. Any suggestions would be helpful. The computer is a older computer about 5 years old and primarily used just for

Windows XP Pro won't recognize second hard drive
Kevin f...@fake.com microsoft public windowsme general Sounds like either your hard drive died, or you lost your windows ME. Try reinstalling it. Kevin -----Original Message----- Last night, But then I guess it realized that it couldn't find a hard drive and gave me a 2MB virtual hard drive to partition. .

Making Boot Disk to recognize Zip drive and entire hard drive ...
Jeff Richards JRich...@msn.com.au microsoft public win98 disks general It appears that when you used FDISK to create the partition you did not say Y to the question about large hard drive support. In this case FDISk will create partitions as FAT16, and the largest partition you can have is 2Gb. Another possibility