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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: JohnPondex on August 17, 2004, 07:59:17 PM

Title: Hard Drive detection & Formating
Post by: JohnPondex on August 17, 2004, 07:59:17 PM

Please Help..
I have just bought a new Hard Drive (Maxtor 40 GB)
and connected it to my desktop. when I ty to
bootup .. it cannot be detected.... How do I detect the hard drive and format it.

Title: Re: Hard Drive detection & Formating
Post by: ChrisC on August 18, 2004, 02:07:26 AM

You should boot up to a boot disk and run FDISK and FORMAT.  Then they can be detected.

Or, Windows2000 install will do it all for you if this is the disk where you will be installing the Windows.

Chris C.

Title: Re: Hard Drive detection & Formating
Post by: MalikTous on August 18, 2004, 12:39:47 PM

If it fails to detect in BIOS, set the jumpers right. Try the primary drive as Master with slave and the new one as Slave, and if that fails try both in Cable Select. When you boot up, insure that your BIOS is set to recognise both drives on your primary IDE channel.

If it recognises in BIOS but not in Windows, you need to use drive administration (FDISK in Win9x and Drive Admin in XP/NT) to partition and format the empty drive.

Title: Re: Hard Drive detection & Formating
Post by: merlin_2 on August 18, 2004, 02:37:29 PM

what operating system have you got ?and how old is this laptop?

Title: Re: Hard Drive detection & Formating
Post by: I_Use_Vista on September 14, 2009, 09:59:53 AM

You should boot up to a boot disk and run FDISK and FORMAT.

Title: Re: Hard Drive detection & Formating
Post by: Allan on September 14, 2009, 10:01:04 AM

Forget all the posts above for the moment. What Operating System do you plan to install?

Title: Re: Hard Drive detection & Formating
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on September 14, 2009, 10:08:08 AM

Forget all the posts for a moment.....Why are you posting in a 5 year old topic?

 ::)

Title: Re: Hard Drive detection & Formating
Post by: Allan on September 14, 2009, 10:11:56 AM

Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on September 14, 2009, 10:08:08 AM

Forget all the posts for a moment.....Why are you posting in a 5 year old topic?

 ::)

Wow - I never even looked.