-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Hard Drive Recognition
- From: "Glo" <redowl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:59:42 -0700
G, thank you, he totally understands your instructions! I knew we'd get a
response if we asked someone OOOLD
enough! big fat kisses :o> ~Glo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 10:50 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Hard Drive Recognition
> 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
>
> http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
>
> ----- 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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