-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Hard Drive Recognition

  • From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:50:08 -0400

Glo,
    It sounds to me like the drive simply hasn't been formatted yet.  New 
drives arrive without any sectors, so it takes a full format to break up the 
new space into usable chunks.  It's been a long time since I formatted 
anything under any version of Win9x (ME is from that OS family), so I'm not 
sure how to guide you through the process on that system.

    I will strongly suggest that you remove it from your system and ask your 
guru to format it as FAT32 in his own system which I am assuming is running 
an NT version of Windows (i.e. Win2000, WinXP, Vista, Win7).  He should have 
no problem as long as his system has the means to support a PATA drive.

Peace,
Gman

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glo" <redowl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 12:53 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Hard Drive Recognition


> I've added a second hard drive for audio storage to my HP 6535 which is
> running ME.  The main drive is set as master, the second drive is set as
> slave.  The slave is not being recognized in My Computer or Windows
> Explorer, but it shows up in device manager under disk drives as a second
> drive.  It also shows in the bios on boot and under system information. 
> It
> should come up as drive D, but it's not showing up under My Computer.  I
> have no clue what I'm talking about, I'm being guided, but can anyone tell
> me if it needs a fix or patch for being a larger drive?
> My guru has forgotten all this about 9x.  Thanks for any help ~Glo 

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