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darkradar
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_ 		3. May 2007 @ 13:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have a friend with a windows 98 computer and he wanted me to install a hardrive in his Compaq desktop for him. I had already done this once with Win XP so I knew how. I hooked it up, but then I realised that my hardrive didn't have those things on it that tell it if it is a master or slave harddrive.(It is a used one I pulled out of another computer I hadn't used for a year) I used those things for another harddrive that didn't have it. I plugged it in anyway and the bios detected it but when I went to My Computer in Windows 98, it wasn't there! Is it because I have to install a driver for it? Is it because it doesn't know if it is a master or slave? I don't know. Please HELP!!!!!!
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ffg7
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_ 		3. May 2007 @ 13:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
if the bios sees the drive but windows doesn't then is the drive fdisked(partitioned like in xp) & formated?
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Indochine
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_ 		4. May 2007 @ 08:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
"those things" are called jumpers. ask around for some off a scrap drive or buy a bag from a computer hardware store. You need one.

PS stupid thread title.

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On m'a dit que je suis nul ŕ l'oral, que je n'peux pas mieux faire !

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ffg7
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_ 		4. May 2007 @ 08:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
a western digital drive if used by itself on it's data cable does not need a jumper.
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_ 		4. May 2007 @ 08:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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Indochine
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_ 		4. May 2007 @ 08:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by ffg7:
a western digital drive if used by itself on it's data cable does not need a jumper.
Maybe so, but do we know what brand it is?

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ffg7
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_ 		4. May 2007 @ 09:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
the fact that it is seen in the bios without any jumpers leads me to think it is a wd drive.
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