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hey-

i am putting a 20gig hard drive into a computer with windows xp installed on it.

i grabbed files off my dying old pc with windows me on it. now we are tying to put the hard drive into a computer with widnows xp on it.. its not readint eh drive in bios, or in disk management, or my computer, and when tisa connected the dvd-r isnt reading either...

the hard drive was originally on a win2000 system, then formatted and win me files thrown on it, and now this is where we are stuck...

-andy
 
Hi,

Make sure your BIOS is set to autodetect your drives.
Also take a look at the fiddly small plastic jumper plugs
at the back end of your HDD. They tell your HDD to behave
as either a Master, Slave or CS (Cable Select - i.e. auto).
Try setting the pins to CS.

Otherwise go to the manufacturer's website and they
usually have good installation guides.

Regards,

Tim
-----Original Message-----
hey-

i am putting a 20gig hard drive into a computer with windows xp installed on it.

i grabbed files off my dying old pc with windows me on
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it. now we are tying to put the hard drive into a computer
with widnows xp on it.. its not readint eh drive in bios,
or in disk management, or my computer, and when tisa
connected the dvd-r isnt reading either...
the hard drive was originally on a win2000 system, then
Click to expand...
formatted and win me files thrown on it, and now this is
where we are stuck...
 
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