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Add another hard drive for storage
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21. July 2007 @ 18:10 |
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I'm running WinXP Pro with a 1.15 ghtz processor, 515 mb of ram a 60 gb hard drive and a cd drive. i want to add another 30 gig drive to my compouter for storage, but when i turn my computer on, it doesn't recognize the drive. help please!
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ddp
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21. July 2007 @ 20:33 |
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is the drive a western digital? is it slave to the 60gig or on secondary ide cable by itself?
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21. July 2007 @ 20:41 |
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um, i'm unsure of the drives make, i don't have it with me right now, it's at my dad's place. however, i do know that it is a secondary ide, not slave
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ddp
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21. July 2007 @ 20:47 |
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if drive is by itself & the ide cable is not in reverse then it looks like that is a western digital drive so remove the jumper if jumpered as master, slave or cable select. other possibility is that the computer is a dell so jumper the drive as cable select.
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21. July 2007 @ 20:51 |
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jumper? i'm not sure what that means
i know my computer isn't a dell though, its a home made computer i got from my uncle
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ddp
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21. July 2007 @ 20:54 |
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21. July 2007 @ 21:01 |
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that clarifies things so much, thanks.
if this moving the jumper doesn't work, what should i do?
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ddp
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21. July 2007 @ 21:07 |
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won't know till you try it. also it is the computer that is not seeing the drive & not windows, correct?
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21. July 2007 @ 21:13 |
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I believe the computer is recognizing it, Windows is not
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ddp
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21. July 2007 @ 21:17 |
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21. July 2007 @ 21:26 |
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Alright, i think it's formatted and partitioned, but i'll run through the procedure again
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22. July 2007 @ 03:10 |
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Don't forget, you can right click on the drive in disk manager and then go "change drive letter and paths" to force it to use another letter. Sometimes windows assigns drives letters that are already being used, so they don't show up.
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22. July 2007 @ 10:43 |
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Alright, once i have access to the drive again, i'll try all that and get back to you
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