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cannot find a new hard drive
On XP Home. I have had two hard drives, and a long time ago I
reconfigured the hardware profiles to try to save power and heat. Now, after a while with only one internal drive, I have installed a second drive. I cannot get it to recognize a new hard drive that I installed. Is there a way to reset the "hardware profiles" config?? I can see the drive on the device manager. It's there and working properly. It's not showing up on "My Computer" Any ideas? |
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cannot find a new hard drive
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, mdizzl writes: On XP Home. I have had two hard drives, and a long time ago I reconfigured the hardware profiles to try to save power and heat. Now, after a while with only one internal drive, I have installed a second drive. I cannot get it to recognize a new hard drive that I installed. Is there a way to reset the "hardware profiles" config?? I can see the drive on the device manager. It's there and working properly. It's not showing up on "My Computer" Any ideas? Silly question, but have you partitioned/formatted it? (And is it either on a different IDE channel, or set as slave? The fact that you can see it in some places suggests that it is.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Relationships are complex because they are part real, part imaginary." - Martin F. Terman |
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cannot find a new hard drive
Thanks, J.P. I have not, in fact, formatted it. I can do so via USB
connection, I suppose (with an adapter I have) although it is straight out of the box, so *should* be formatted...?? I will definitely look at the slave status - that's a great idea. Thanks! Matt |
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cannot find a new hard drive
On Sep 23, 8:50*am, mdizzl wrote:
Thanks, J.P. *I have not, in fact, formatted it. *I can do so via USB connection, I suppose (with an adapter I have) although it is straight out of the box, so *should* be formatted...?? I will definitely look at the slave status - that's a great idea. Thanks! Matt Partitioning under Disk Manager worked. Thanks! |
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