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ziggyzog

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6. November 2004 @ 04:35

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Hi

I'm having problems installing a 2nd hard drive.

The drive was 2nd hand and already had a windows operating system installed on it. I firstly installed it as a secondary master, with the CD as slave. All worked fine, the BIOS auto recognised everything and booted into the Windows XP on the first primary hard drive no problem. Windows assigned a new drive letter and all was ok.

I then, in my wisdom, decided to delete all the old files from the newly installed drive.

When I now reboot, the BIOS no longer recognises this drive? (plus Windows)

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

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ianski7

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6. November 2004 @ 05:13

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Hey!

Try this........

Power down the system and unplug.
Dissconnect data and power from the new drive.
Power on system and go to Bios-reset to defaults-
if you have made any special changes record them.
Power down system and unplug
Reconnect the cables to drive.
Power on system and check in Bios for new drive-
it should be there.
Reboot into O/S
Do you want new drive as storage or do you want O/S on it?

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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 6. November 2004 @ 07:08

ziggyzog

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6. November 2004 @ 07:20

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Thanks, that worked a treat.

The 2nd drive is just for storage, so now sorted.

Thanks again.

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