Just bought a 80 gig deskstar to replace th exisiting 2 and 3 gig drives in my parents PC. The second drive has always been in a caddy and I have swapped various drives in and out and all show up in windows explorer as a drive.
This new drive doesn't but does show up in device manager and in bios so the sys does recognise it.
What am I doing wrong? I have checked the jumpers and the drive is set as slave. I need to see it so I can format the drive then copy windows across.
Any ideas?
I do know everything, just not all at once. It's a virtual memory problem.
It sounds like you need to format the drive ....
What o/s are u using? if its 2k or XP, right click my computer -> Manage -> disk management
This will allow you to create partitions and format the new drive.
Alternately you can use a dos (persoanlly I use a modified win98) boot floppy (containing fdisk and format), slightly more involved but still quite easy, the files can be downloaded from bootdisk.com
Last edited by skattrd; 28-03-2004 at 12:01 PM.
Thanks, worked a treat.
I do know everything, just not all at once. It's a virtual memory problem.
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