HDD not detected by XP

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Anyone have any clue as to why a working HDD that can be seen by the
BIOS and by a bootdisk with FDISK but remain undetectable by Windows XP
Home? (Undetectable as not seen by the LDM)
 
cuba said:
Anyone have any clue as to why a working HDD that can be seen by the
BIOS and by a bootdisk with FDISK but remain undetectable by Windows XP
Home? (Undetectable as not seen by the LDM)
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LDM??

Have you tried...

....another IDE (or is it SATA) channel?

...."scan for hardware changes" in device manager

...."add new hardware" from control panel.

I have inconsistent results with USB HDD's. Sometimes they'll work in one
USB port but not another, another time its vice versa. Sometimes they'll
only be detected if I use a USB1 socket sometime a USB2. And sometimes
they're not seen at all.

Ho hum.

A great quote I saw once... "Computers are like air conditioning - they work
so much better when you close windows"

YMMV

HTH

Ian I^)
 
Ian R said:
LDM??

Have you tried...

...another IDE (or is it SATA) channel?

..."scan for hardware changes" in device manager

..."add new hardware" from control panel.

I have inconsistent results with USB HDD's. Sometimes they'll work in one
USB port but not another, another time its vice versa. Sometimes they'll
only be detected if I use a USB1 socket sometime a USB2. And sometimes
they're not seen at all.

Ho hum.

A great quote I saw once... "Computers are like air conditioning - they
work so much better when you close windows"

YMMV

HTH

Ian I^)
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Have you partitioned and formatted the drive?
Mike.
 
Michael Hawes said:
Have you partitioned and formatted the drive?
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The OP appears to be talking about Disk Management,
tho its not clear where the L comes from.
 
Ian said:
LDM??
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Ah. I forgot that Windows XP is not necessarily pertinent to this
group. Windows XP, in some software engineer's infinite wisdom, chose
to leave out some command line utilities like the old and venerable
FDISK and instead includes a "Logical Disk Manager" which puts a GUI on
partitioning and formatting drives. (One of Microsoft "help" files
suggests to boot the PC with the Windows install CD to get to a
function similar to FDISK. And it is so lame...)
Have you tried...

...another IDE (or is it SATA) channel?
..."scan for hardware changes" in device manager
..."add new hardware" from control panel.
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[snip]

Yeah, tried it all. It's an IDE.
Ho hum.
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Yeah, I just *love* Windows; it is so *consistent*. Yawn.
A great quote I saw once... "Computers are like air conditioning - they work
so much better when you close windows"
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Yeah, I got clients though.

thanks for the tips
 
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