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XP doesnt see or recognise hard drive
The Hard Drive maybe locked out, as in it only maybe seen
by one operating system. Im not totally sure of your situation, but if it shows in the Windows XP setup, then it should be there, if not it has been locked out. There are several ways to import it, but im not sure how to do this in XP yet. If that is not it, it also maybe that your motherboard does not support a hard drive on the second channel (i find very unlikely with you Motherboard but it may be true). So try using it as a slave on the master channel, and if there is a divice there, remove it and just plug in that hard drive there. -----Original Message----- I recently installed a 40 gig Maxtor hd to upgrade from my previous 20 gig also Maxtor hard drive. My computer has a Abit KT7 Raid motherboard, although I dont have Raid installed, just the 2 drives. They are on 2 distinct and independent channels, both configured as Master. There is no problem with haveing 2 master disks on 2 distinct channels because when I boot up from a Win 98 se setup disk, FDISK can see them both. (In case you are wondering, it didnt before until I switched the boot disk select fom the BIOS) However, when running under XP, XP cant see the 2nd disk. The 2nd disk is the old Maxtor 20 gig hd. I went to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Comptuer Management, Disk Management, and still cant see it. I tried various techniques and method but nothing helps. Any ideas or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. TIA. . |
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XP doesnt see or recognise hard drive
I've read here that you can't have more than one active partition on your
computer. In that case, at least PartitionMagic can help you, as XP itself cannot. -- ================================================= Most learned here on nntp://news.mircosoft.com Helsinki, Finland (remove _SPAM) ================================================= kirjoitti viestissä ... The Hard Drive maybe locked out, as in it only maybe seen by one operating system. Im not totally sure of your situation, but if it shows in the Windows XP setup, then it should be there, if not it has been locked out. There are several ways to import it, but im not sure how to do this in XP yet. If that is not it, it also maybe that your motherboard does not support a hard drive on the second channel (i find very unlikely with you Motherboard but it may be true). So try using it as a slave on the master channel, and if there is a divice there, remove it and just plug in that hard drive there. -----Original Message----- I recently installed a 40 gig Maxtor hd to upgrade from my previous 20 gig also Maxtor hard drive. My computer has a Abit KT7 Raid motherboard, although I dont have Raid installed, just the 2 drives. They are on 2 distinct and independent channels, both configured as Master. There is no problem with haveing 2 master disks on 2 distinct channels because when I boot up from a Win 98 se setup disk, FDISK can see them both. (In case you are wondering, it didnt before until I switched the boot disk select fom the BIOS) However, when running under XP, XP cant see the 2nd disk. The 2nd disk is the old Maxtor 20 gig hd. I went to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Comptuer Management, Disk Management, and still cant see it. I tried various techniques and method but nothing helps. Any ideas or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. TIA. . |
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