Samsung 300 Gig HD says it not formated ??

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Samsung 300 Gig HD says it not formated ??


Its ATA 100 or 133 :)


Its in An Asus A7v266-e. The drive is fine and formated in my Abit
NF7-S 2.0, but on the ASUS board it just does not work ?


Anyone know why this might be happening and any ideas to fix it ?


Thanks.
 
Previously Home Theatre Guy <Home Theatre Guy> wrote:


Samsung 300 Gig HD says it not formated ??

Its ATA 100 or 133 :)

Its in An Asus A7v266-e. The drive is fine and formated in my Abit
NF7-S 2.0, but on the ASUS board it just does not work ?

Anyone know why this might be happening and any ideas to fix it ?
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OS trouble, e.g. an XP without SP2?

Arno
 
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Samsung 300 Gig HD says it not formated ??


Its ATA 100 or 133 :)


Its in An Asus A7v266-e. The drive is fine and formated in my Abit
NF7-S 2.0, but on the ASUS board it just does not work ?


Anyone know why this might be happening and any ideas to fix it ?
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I have a Maxtor 200GB drive that strangely defaults to CHS translation
instead of LBA.
As I have heard that LBA is preferrable, I have always manually entered LBA
instead of "auto" in BIOS.
When installing new drives and reconfiguring my PC, I once forgot to change
this setting accordingly.
Then my drive came back up as unpartitioned, which was fixed in BIOS.

Could something similar have happened to you?
 
PC has XP and Sp2.

Problem was it needed to be on a seperate IDE and cable and on master
????

I don't know WHY. Just did to work :)

Thanks.
 
PC has XP and Sp2.
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Problem was it needed to be on a seperate IDE and cable and on master
????
Huh?

I don't know WHY. Just did to work :)
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Very strange. I believe you. Maybe a partially defect
controller that cannot drive two devices on the IDE bus?
Static electricity or overheating can cause this type
of problem.

Arno
 
Bios updated as far as it can go Captian :)

2001 Mobo man.

Its working its fine now. Adding extra drives might be a pain. But i
live for challanges like that. External USB if needed :)

Thanks.
 
Huh?
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What, you were found out babbling, once again?
Very strange.
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Or just very explainable, like wrong jumper config or wrong bios settings.
I believe you.
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In other words, you eat crow.
Maybe a partially defect controller that cannot drive two devices on the IDE bus?
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Grasping at straws, as always.
Static electricity or overheating can cause this type of problem.
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You just pulled that out of your ass to mask your babbling.
 
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