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| Thread ID: 46333 | 2004-06-20 09:43:00 | Seagate Hard Drive or USB Storage | robM (5790) | Press F1 |
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| 246266 | 2004-06-20 09:43:00 | I have 4 Seagate HDDs 80Gb plus a couple of 120Gb Samsung HDDs. My computer is a Compaq Presario 1500 with 512MbRAM, running Windows 2KPro. I have external two storage bays: a 1394IEEE Firewire bay plus a USB2 Bay. My problem relates to readability of the hard drives. All drives are used for straight storage. All are partitioned as single logical partitions formatted as Fat32. All drives operate satisfactorily in the Firewire Drive Bay I.E. the computer sees and allows access to them. None of the Seagate drives will show up in the USB 2 Drive, but both of the Samsung drives appear and can be accessed with no problems. I can run a Samsung in the USB and a Seagate in the Firewire without difficulty. I cannot figure out why the Seagate drives will not appear in the USB Drive Bay. The computer slows right down and will not show the presence of a HDD even though it shows the USB Bulk Storage Device in the menu bar, and in File Manager. When I attempt to view the drives in Partition Magic 8 I get a Init Failed: Error 100 Partition Table is bad message. I have looked that up in the Norton Help Page but none of the 6 or 7 possible causes seem to relate to my situation. When I try to run Partition view I get a blank format showing no drives at all. I have systematically excluded faults in the trays, the individual drives and the computer (I get the same problem using my NEC laptop with XP Home) I have tried reformatting the drives as primary partitions and have moved the jumper switches around without success. I have run out of ideas. Can anyone help? |
robM (5790) | ||
| 246267 | 2004-06-20 09:53:00 | hard drive can be accessed as LBA, large or normail. if a drive is setup in the wrong mode it may give problems when accessed in another mode. put the drive that give you problems in to a system on the IDE and go in to bios and set it to LBA. fdisk to drive and then try it in the USB case. if that dont work then do it again but select large or normal in the bios before you fdisk the disk. hope that helps. other thought is to ring seagate help and see what they say. |
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