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jnbean
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_ 		24. September 2007 @ 12:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ok i have this 40 gb hard drive that bios will not detect..but when in windows as a slave will be detected..it shows up as working properly, but shows no icon...when its a slave it shows up in bios...but when its itself it wont....Ive checked cabels, jumpers, connections, whats wrong here....OH and this hard drive works fine by itself in other computers.
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_ 		24. September 2007 @ 14:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by jnbean:
 Ok i have this 40 gb hard drive that bios will not detect..but when in windows as a slave will be detected..it shows up as working properly, but shows no icon...when its a slave it shows up in bios...but when its itself it wont....Ive checked cabels, jumpers, connections, whats wrong here....OH and this hard drive works fine by itself in other computers.
Did you format the drive?
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jnbean
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_ 		24. September 2007 @ 17:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I cant fomat it..... when i try to do a "format c:" it will say "format not suported on drive c:" then i try a fdisk and it will say "no fixed disks present"
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_ 		24. September 2007 @ 18:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by jnbean:
 I cant fomat it..... when i try to do a "format c:" it will say "format not suported on drive c:" then i try a fdisk and it will say "no fixed disks present"
Try going to Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management. If it shows there, you can enable it, then format it.
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_ 		24. September 2007 @ 19:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
jnbean, is the drive a sata or ide? is it a western digital if an ide? closed as you already have a thread going on on this subject.
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/565594
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