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Offline Fineus

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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?
 

Offline kasperl

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Reply #1 on: March 24, 2003, 10:12:21 am
did you format the drive?

(i forgot that on the first drive i installed :nervous: )
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Reply #2 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...
 

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Reply #3 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 ^_^
 

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Reply #4 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.
 

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Reply #5 on: March 24, 2003, 10:31:55 am
your welcome, just helping out.
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Reply #6 on: March 24, 2003, 10:32:00 am
dammit kasper, you took my idea :(
 

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Reply #7 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 ;)
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Reply #8 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.."
 

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Reply #9 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:
 

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Reply #10 on: March 24, 2003, 12:25:42 pm
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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...
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Reply #11 on: March 24, 2003, 11:26:01 pm
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The jumpers are right, the disk is formatted and it now works. Thanks guys, case closed - I'm an idiot.


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Reply #12 on: March 25, 2003, 01:48:51 am
I never heard of drives that where pre-formated:D
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Reply #13 on: March 25, 2003, 03:32:35 pm
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I'm an idiot.


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Reply #14 on: March 25, 2003, 03:33:44 pm
So is bumping old threads, but I wield the hammer in this conversation. Pwned.
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