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| D-res |
i just bought an 80gb HDD off my friend and intstalled it. the device manager says its there and functioning correctly, but windows explorer doesnt show it.
im so confused. what should i do. i havent installed anything in my pc for a long time so i've forgotten most stuff, rendering me almost n00b.
helllpppzzzz :) |
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| Floorfiller |
| when you installed the drive...did you remember to switch the thingy to slave? |
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| Orbax |
| sometimes they need to be formatted before you can do anythign to them. Also if its a new one it may need a faster IDE cable or even be attached to a IDE expansion card through your mobo. |
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| D-res |
lol.. wow... im a dumbass
yep, i thought about it for a sec and did basically what Nou said.
nevermind :haha:
Now i get to wait forever for the frickin thing to format :whip: |
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| Tranceporter99 |
| quote: | Originally posted by D-res
lol.. wow... im a dumbass
yep, i thought about it for a sec and did basically what Nou said.
nevermind :haha:
Now i get to wait forever for the frickin thing to format :whip: |
lol. i was at a lan party, and this dude had to format and reinstall windows why he was there, and then get all the drivers for all his stuff. |
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| itsTrueSonic |
damn it .. i am always late with these threads .. looks like problem solved .. 
| quote: | Originally posted by Floorfiller
when you installed the drive...did you remember to switch the thingy to slave? |
not really .. some hard drives have the pin setup as a default setting (the "fif" notch), which automatically becomes downgraded to a slave .. you would have to move the pin when the drive is bumped to primary...
| quote: | Originally posted by Nou
right click on My Computer, goto manage, goto disk managment, it should be in there, format it from there. |
the best idea there .. .. i coulda said click Run>>type "MMC">>Add snap-in>>add>>Disk Management .. but that's the 1337 way of doing it .. :haha:
| quote: | Originally posted by Tranceporter99
lol. i was at a lan party, and this dude had to format and reinstall windows why he was there, and then get all the drivers for all his stuff. |
hahaaha.. that sucks .. but things can't get ier when your computer says "PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED" or "CANNOT_DETECT_BOOTDEVICE" .. now that sucks .. :whip: :whip: |
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| KilldaDJ |
yeah i had a similar problem a few weeks back when i got a drive off ebay.
installed it, sorted the jumpers out, got it as a secondary master etc blah blah blah
showed up in bios blah blah blah
got into windows, doesnt show up in explorer, so i thought 'hm...need to fix this'
neglected to say im on a '98 machine, but i like 98 so :)
had to get windows to recognise the hd, so i buggered off into DOS and ran FDISK, created a new partition on the drive, yeah that was all fine and dandy
formatted this new partition and that took forever, so i pissed off to have a shower (i got back from work late)
come back, screen has this drive info crap on it all sorted
booted back into windows, all there and ready to be filled up
the end. |
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| Zeiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by KilldaDJ
yeah i had a similar problem a few weeks back when i got a drive off ebay.
installed it, sorted the jumpers out, got it as a secondary master etc blah blah blah
showed up in bios blah blah blah
got into windows, doesnt show up in explorer, so i thought 'hm...need to fix this'
neglected to say im on a '98 machine, but i like 98 so :)
had to get windows to recognise the hd, so i buggered off into DOS and ran FDISK, created a new partition on the drive, yeah that was all fine and dandy
formatted this new partition and that took forever, so i pissed off to have a shower (i got back from work late)
come back, screen has this drive info crap on it all sorted
booted back into windows, all there and ready to be filled up
the end. |
that's an amazing story :) thanks for sharing! :haha: |
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| D-res |
| quote: | Originally posted by KilldaDJ
yeah i had a similar problem a few weeks back when i got a drive off ebay.
installed it, sorted the jumpers out, got it as a secondary master etc blah blah blah
showed up in bios blah blah blah
got into windows, doesnt show up in explorer, so i thought 'hm...need to fix this'
neglected to say im on a '98 machine, but i like 98 so :)
had to get windows to recognise the hd, so i buggered off into DOS and ran FDISK, created a new partition on the drive, yeah that was all fine and dandy
formatted this new partition and that took forever, so i pissed off to have a shower (i got back from work late)
come back, screen has this drive info crap on it all sorted
booted back into windows, all there and ready to be filled up
the end. |
*sniff*
beautiful :tongue2 |
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| nrjizer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tranceporter99
lol. i was at a lan party, and this dude had to format and reinstall windows why he was there, and then get all the drivers for all his stuff. |
PFFT, we do that regularly. Whenever something isnt working right, we just ing format the bitch. In fact, whenever something goes wrong with my box I'll try a few obvious things, and if that doesn't work then I'll bust out the format. No reason to waste time ing with it, once your windows is ed it's very hard to un- it.
I never do though. My is kept straight. |
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| Nell |
| formatting frequently is one of the worst things you can do to a hard disk, it wears it down hard and fast. i format mine once a year at most, unless it's an emergency |
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| tribu |
| quote: | Originally posted by nrjizer
PFFT, we do that regularly. Whenever something isnt working right, we just ing format the bitch. In fact, whenever something goes wrong with my box I'll try a few obvious things, and if that doesn't work then I'll bust out the format. No reason to waste time ing with it, once your windows is ed it's very hard to un- it.
I never do though. My is kept straight. |
lol, Ive had the do the old, ' it, Im just formatting the bitch' before.
Sometimes, reintalling all your , resetting it back up, and moving massive amounts of files is less stringent than having to fix windows. |
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