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  1. Jul 28th, 2001, 03:46 AM #1
    billfaceuk
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    A Hardware Question

    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...
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  2. Jul 28th, 2001, 10:18 AM #2
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    Was it partitioned and formatted?
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  3. Jul 29th, 2001, 05:42 AM #3
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    Yep, it was a removable harddrive from another computer
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  4. Jul 29th, 2001, 06:32 AM #4
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    How did you format the disk? low-level (from BIOS) or high-level(just removing files)?
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  6. Jul 29th, 2001, 07:59 AM #5
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    BIOS
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  7. Jul 29th, 2001, 08:48 AM #6
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    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
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  8. Jul 29th, 2001, 08:55 AM #7
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    I can't remember. What version of Windows are you running?
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  9. Jul 29th, 2001, 09:40 AM #8
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    Originally posted by billfaceuk
    BIOS
    Low-level formatting destroys a hard drive as it physically alters the disk. Hard drives are already low-level formatted in the factory.
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  11. Jul 29th, 2001, 01:16 PM #9
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    It can be reclaimed tho.
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  12. Jul 29th, 2001, 01:27 PM #10
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    Oh? You should have told me that before I trashed a couple of 300 MB Hard Drives.
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  13. Jul 29th, 2001, 02:18 PM #11
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    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
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  14. Jul 29th, 2001, 02:23 PM #12
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    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...
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  15. Jul 29th, 2001, 08:33 PM #13
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    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 im just a teenage dirtbag baby would be a copyright of wheatus
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  16. Jul 30th, 2001, 01:09 PM #14
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    And I give a toss?
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  17. Jul 30th, 2001, 04:19 PM #15
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    um... no, and you shouldn't
    Government is another way to say better…than…you.
    It’s like ice but no pick, a murder charge that won’t stick,
    it’s like a whole other world where you can smell the food,
    but you can’t touch the silverware.
    Huh, what luck. Fascism you can vote for.
    Humph, isn’t that sweet?
    And we’re all gonna die some day, because that’s the American way
    -Stone Sour
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  18. Jul 30th, 2001, 08:30 PM #16
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    sure you should

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