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250GB Internal or External Hard Drive
I've puchased a Platinum 250 GB hard disk to add as a secondary drive or slave with my burner as the master. I've connected it up on the IDE cable, but when i reload it, it doesn't come up in My Computer. I then puchased a IDE to USB Connector and power supply to link it up as an external hard disk, I connect the device up and plug it in, the software CD tells me i don't have to install any drivers as Windows XP will do it by it self, It reads it, detects that it's there and tells me that its ready for use, but once again it doesn't appear in the My Computer. This is really frustrating.
shesagordie
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Posted June 29th, 2006 18:00
lbailey83Did you set the external IDE hard drive's jumpers, to the "Master" setting?Bev.- You need to be aware that on the newer machines you cannot place a HDD on a Optical drive controler. You will notice that the cable used to hook up your CD drives has 40 strands while the hdd cable has 80. Your BOIS probably does not recognise the drive and thats why you cannot see it in xp. Your best bet is to configure the drive jumpers to make the drive slave and attach it as secondary to your master drive. Then follow klbf's advice and format the drive as NTFS. THe external option should work if you format it there will be a huge performance cost and is not recommended unless you require protability.
shesagordie
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Posted June 30th, 2006 02:00
pundip wrote:"You need to be aware that on the newer machines you cannot place a HDD on a Optical drive controler. You will notice that the cable used to hook up your CD drives has 40 strands while the hdd cable has 80. Your BOIS probably does not recognise the drive and thats why you cannot see it in xp. Your best bet is to configure the drive jumpers to make the drive slave and attach it as secondary to your master drive. Then follow klbf's advice and format the drive as NTFS. THe external option should work if you format it there will be a huge performance cost and is not recommended unless you require protability"If this is the case, surely the 40 conductor x 40-pin IDE cable, could be exchanged for a 80 conductor x 40-pin cable. As a point of interest, the default IDE cables to the optical drives in my Dimension systems, are all 80 conductor.Bev.
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Posted June 29th, 2006 08:00
you will need to format the hard drive before it will show in my computer, right click my computer/manage/disk management then format as NTFS
then you can add files etc to your hard drive ... enjoy
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