Hard Drive Question

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Lou Pratt

I recently installed a third hd on my system connected to a Maxtor ATA 100
PCI adapter card. The drive is recognized at boot-up and also shows up in
system info as working properly, but it doesn't show up in Windows
Explorer, My Computer, etc. I also have Partition Magic installed and the
drive shows up there as drive 3, but I can't do anything with it. What do I
need to do in order to be able to access the drive?

Thanks
 
I recently installed a third hd on my system connected to a Maxtor ATA 100
PCI adapter card. The drive is recognized at boot-up and also shows up in
system info as working properly, but it doesn't show up in Windows
Explorer, My Computer, etc. I also have Partition Magic installed and the
drive shows up there as drive 3, but I can't do anything with it. What do I
need to do in order to be able to access the drive?

Thanks
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Did you partition and format it?

If not, the Maxblast utilities floppy and/or CDROM will do that the
fastest, easily.


Dave
 
Did you partition and format it?

If not, the Maxblast utilities floppy and/or CDROM will do that the
fastest, easily.


Dave
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Thanks for the quick response. I did format it but I'll do it again. Will
I need to remove it and set it to master and format it in the primary IDE
or can I somehow do it from where it is now?

Thanks

Lou
 
Lou Pratt said:
Thanks for the quick response. I did format it but I'll do it again. Will
I need to remove it and set it to master and format it in the primary IDE
or can I somehow do it from where it is now?

Thanks

Lou
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Don't run Tweak UI do you? - If you do, goto the 'My Computer' tab and make
sure you are showing the drive in the list. This is changed via registry -
can't remember where. If you don't have tweakui then install it and check
anyway
 
Don't run Tweak UI do you? - If you do, goto the 'My Computer' tab and make
sure you are showing the drive in the list. This is changed via registry -
can't remember where. If you don't have tweakui then install it and check
anyway
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I didn't have Tweak UI but I did download and install it and all the drive
letters are there. The drive works fine as a slave but not as a stand alone
drive, so I know it's not the drive itself. Thanks for mentioning Tweak UI
as it is a nice program on it's own.

Lou
 
what is it -- FAT32 or NTFS?




Lou said:
I didn't have Tweak UI but I did download and install it and all the drive
letters are there. The drive works fine as a slave but not as a stand alone
drive, so I know it's not the drive itself. Thanks for mentioning Tweak UI
as it is a nice program on it's own.

Lou
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I didn't have Tweak UI but I did download and install it and all the drive
letters are there. The drive works fine as a slave but not as a stand alone
drive, so I know it's not the drive itself. Thanks for mentioning Tweak UI
as it is a nice program on it's own.

Lou
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You need to change the jumpers.


Hope ya'll have a nice weekend...

Trent


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