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Old 01-15-2008   #1 (permalink)
pud


 
 

adding a hard drive

i amd currently trying to add a slave hard drive but for some strange reason
vista isn't reading i have one even though in device manager it says there is
one can someone help me out on this problem.......... also when i start my
computer up it says that i have 2 hard drives one a master and the other a
slave..............

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Old 01-15-2008   #2 (permalink)
Malke


 
 

Re: adding a hard drive

pud wrote:
Quote:

> i amd currently trying to add a slave hard drive but for some strange reason
> vista isn't reading i have one even though in device manager it says there is
> one can someone help me out on this problem.......... also when i start my
> computer up it says that i have 2 hard drives one a master and the other a
> slave..............
Did you remember to partition and format the drive? If not, you need to
do this. You can do it from within Administrative Tools>Computer
Management>Disk Management if it appears there. If it doesn't appear in
that part of Vista, partition and format it with either a utility from
the drive mftr. or even a Win98 boot disk using fdisk and then format.

If this doesn't apply to your situation, please post back with more details.


Malke
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