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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fineus on March 24, 2003, 10:06:41 am

Title: Hard Drive Detection Problems
Post by: Fineus on March 24, 2003, 10:06:41 am

Hey all, having recently gotten hold of a second hard drive and having eagerly plugged it - I've hit something of a brick wall. Both drives are detected in BIOS but I've got nothing when it comes to "My Computer". System specs are as follows:

Win 98
Chaintech Zenith 7NJS Mobo
IBM 40GB Primary drive (Main drive)
Maxtor 80GB Slave (secondary - the new one)
512MB RAM

The drive has power, and is detected on startup. Any thoughts?

Title: Hard Drive Detection Problems
Post by: kasperl on March 24, 2003, 10:12:21 am

did you format the drive?

(i forgot that on the first drive i installed :nervous: )

Title: Hard Drive Detection Problems
Post by: Fineus on March 24, 2003, 10:17:11 am

You mean they don't come pre-formatted?

That'd explain a lot... :doubt:

I'll go try it now - let you know...

Title: Hard Drive Detection Problems
Post by: Odyssey on March 24, 2003, 10:24:00 am

Also check that the jumper settings are correct for setting the drive as a slave. Otherwise things could go horribly wrong. Even if you think they're right, double check, the damn little things always seem to end up in the wrong place anyway ^_^

Title: Hard Drive Detection Problems
Post by: Fineus on March 24, 2003, 10:30:58 am

The jumpers are right, the disk is formatted and it now works. Thanks guys, case closed - I'm an idiot.

Title: Hard Drive Detection Problems
Post by: kasperl on March 24, 2003, 10:31:55 am

your welcome, just helping out.

Title: Hard Drive Detection Problems
Post by: Stealth on March 24, 2003, 10:32:00 am

dammit kasper, you took my idea :(

Title: Hard Drive Detection Problems
Post by: Warlock on March 24, 2003, 11:10:20 am

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Originally posted by kasperl
did you format the drive?

(i forgot that on the first drive i installed :nervous: )

Never would have thought of this one ,...I've yet to have to format a drive to get it to work fresh out a box.  (Course I've always had Maxtor drives and used the provided disk to get everything set up....so that might automatically format them)

Good call thou ;)

Title: Hard Drive Detection Problems
Post by: Fineus on March 24, 2003, 11:21:23 am

It does, I headed over to Maxtors home site and downloaded MaxBlast3, it did everything for me and bang, problem solved (it was Kasperls prompting that made me think "hang on, I've got a backup drive that had software with it.. I wonder.."

Title: Hard Drive Detection Problems
Post by: Stealth on March 24, 2003, 11:22:05 am

yeah, well my server 160 GB Maxtor HD went dead, and formatting's not the problem :doubt:

Title: Hard Drive Detection Problems
Post by: kode on March 24, 2003, 12:25:42 pm

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Originally posted by Warlock


Never would have thought of this one ,...I've yet to have to format a drive to get it to work fresh out a box.  (Course I've always had Maxtor drives and used the provided disk to get everything set up....so that might automatically format them)

Good call thou ;)

never would have thought of it either... but then again, I only buy new hard drives to install OS's on, and that includes partitioning and formatting usually...

albeit a little late, I screwed up last thursday and lost all the partitions on a hard drive while playing around with novell netware... can't be saved now tho...

Title: Hard Drive Detection Problems
Post by: Vertigo1 on March 24, 2003, 11:26:01 pm

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Originally posted by Kalfireth
The jumpers are right, the disk is formatted and it now works. Thanks guys, case closed - I'm an idiot.

[Nelson]
Ha! Ha!
[/Nelson]

:D

Title: Hard Drive Detection Problems
Post by: Darkage on March 25, 2003, 01:48:51 am

I never heard of drives that where pre-formated:D

Title: Hard Drive Detection Problems
Post by: SKYNET-011 on March 25, 2003, 03:32:35 pm

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I'm an idiot.

Self flaming is bad, M'kay?

Title: Hard Drive Detection Problems
Post by: Fineus on March 25, 2003, 03:33:44 pm

So is bumping old threads, but I wield the hammer in this conversation. Pwned.