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Little help, though I don't really think I'll get anywhere. Just something I'm trying. C drive, boot disk- 10 gigs Secondary Master (D drive) is my CD writer, secondary slave is my CD-ROM. Now then. I just put a 60 gigger as my primary slave IDE. This particular HD has had problems before. There could be a motherboard/hardware conflict... it's a big disk and my motherboard is rather ancient. BUT, it worked for many months earlier this year. It was my D drive for a while, and I have a topic documenting its ''death''... bad times, bad times, but it helped me change from boy to man. BIOS detects it... I have it the settings on user and it seemed to auto populate the values. If I should put this on auto, let me know. I have LBA on. Device manager detects it. ''This hardware is working properly''. ST360021A (Seagate Barracuda). The Windows XP pop up balloon on the taskbar confirmed that the new hardware is indeed detected. Sounds good. So... BIOS sees it... and Windows sees it. And I had it into a shop a couple months ago (a while after it was ''pronounced dead'') and it worked on a Windows 98 system they had there (worked when I had 98 as well, quit on me after a couple months with XP). Sounds like this HD works. It's detected just fine, but I can't access it through My Computer or anything, can't do anything with it. Do I have to format/partition it with anything, or do anything else with this before I can access it and... well, use it? Or maybe I should give up and accept that my motherboard doesn't care for it anymore? |
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''Do I have to format/partition it with anything, or do anything else with this before I can access it and... well, use it?'' IE, it needs a drive name, right? It used to be D, in its glory days, but D now is my CD Writer. Does the CPU automatically assign a drive letter or is there a step I've skipped? |
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Probably something to do with the jumpers on the actual physical drive - you should set it to slave instead of cable select, or vice versa. I mean these things should work either way but in reality you have to screw with it until it does. |
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Yeah, I checked that, it's A OK. This particular HD had zero jumpers on it for the slave setting, took 'em all off. Any other ideas? |
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install partition magic. it'll let you know if the drive is not formated, I think.. |
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reformat the drive as ntsf, xp won't read fat 32 |
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XP will read FAT32. You can install XP on a FAT32 formatted drive if you want. If you have had a hardware found message pop up then go into Start>>Settings>>Control Panel>>System then check to see what type of hardware it has registered the device under. |
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well fuck me dead *goes to beat up the nerd that lied to him |
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heh :P It's the other way round that's the problem...Windows9x won't read NTFS. |
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Control Panel- System, and then what? I can't find the file format. I do know my C drive is NTFS... I checked in Disk Manager. Here's the skinny... my Device Manager sees it... reports no problems. But when I go into DISK Management (Computer Management)... nothing. So I don't know the format. I tried running some Seagate troubleshooting programs from their site, but it isn't helping. |
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I'm thinking I might put the 60 gigger to my Secondary Master or Secondary Slave IDES temporarily, to see what happens. Any way to format slave disks that doesn't involve the Disk Manager utility? |
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If you have the XP installation disk remove your 10Gig drive, leave the 60 in and see if you are able to do a fresh install. |
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I'll give it a go in an hour or two. It won't screw up any settings on the CPU if I do that, will it? The 10 will be just fine and intact if I put it back in as the boot? I wouldn't think there'd be a problem, but I'm paranoid with these grumpy circuity motherfuckers. |
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