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Installing a Slave drive

Started by frickstyle , Apr 11 2005 05:05 PM

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frickstyle

Posted 11 April 2005 - 05:05 PM

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Just installed a second hard drive (Samsung 80 GB) in my computer. The computer can detect it and is shown in CMOS as primary slave, device is also listed under Device Manager and shows that device is working properly. The problem is that the hard drive is not listed under my computer and there is no way to access the drive. I bought the drive for two options, either copy all files from existing hard drive (use as back up drive) and reformat primary drive, or use new HDD and keep old HDD for backup. Any help would be much appreciated, Thanks

Windows XP
480 MB Ram
120 GB hardrive
Pentium 4
MSI mainboard

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The one

Posted 11 April 2005 - 05:20 PM

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ok friend what u need to do is right click my computer (not shortcut) then manage then disk management and then under there it will be and will say unallocated and there is an option in there to format or partition or summit i cant remember the specific but something along them lines.

james