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Long story but I'm trying to add a harddrive to another computer making it primary slave.
I added it with jumper settings set to slave and it was recognised in BIOS and on start-up as primary slave. But in Windows it wasn't being detected.I tried Control Panel-> Detect New Hardware
but nothing...
Was it partitioned and formatted?
Yep, it was a removable harddrive from another computer
How did you format the disk? low-level (from BIOS) or high-level(just removing files)?
BIOS
You foolish little man. I'll try to remember how I solved this problem, when I did the same (although it was my only hard disk and I was trying to install DOS6.x & then Win3.11) ....BRB:)
I can't remember. What version of Windows are you running?
Low-level formatting destroys a hard drive as it physically alters the disk. Hard drives are already low-level formatted in the factory.Quote:
Originally posted by billfaceuk
BIOS
It can be reclaimed tho.:rolleyes:
Oh? You should have told me that before I trashed a couple of 300 MB Hard Drives. :)
i'm running win 98 s/e
and ric I think that your avatar is copyright Blink 182 and MCA as it appared as track number 6 on Take off your pants and jackets as track number 6...in case you wanted to know :)
and I might be lying when i said BIOS all i did was take the main harddrive from one computer and put it into the other making it the slave...
and im just a teenage dirtbag baby would be a copyright of wheatusQuote:
Originally posted by billfaceuk
i'm running win 98 s/e
and ric I think that your avatar is copyright Blink 182 and MCA as it appared as track number 6 on Take off your pants and jackets as track number 6...in case you wanted to know :)
And I give a toss?:p
um... no, and you shouldn't
sure you should :)