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| Thread ID: 35189 | 2003-07-04 13:54:00 | Seagate Hard Drive not recognised by windows | Dr Sputnik (3889) | Press F1 |
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| 157468 | 2003-07-04 13:54:00 | Seagate Barracuda IV 7200RPM 40GB hard drive serial number: 3HS11R3F This hard drive was used as a slave hard drive then was upgraded to support two drives in RAID formatt, since then the computer does not see the hard drive although it spins up and can be heard running. Windows does not detect the hard drive there anymore. Any ideas what is wrong, how to fix and the likely cost. Cheers Dr Sputnik |
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| 157469 | 2003-07-04 14:28:00 | What OS? Are you running off a raid card or with onboard raid. If onboard make sure it's enabled in Bios Had similar problems with onboard raid, that was my first mistake. If you're running XP or W2000 windows seems to handle drives differently to earlier versions. This is for W2K version (as that's the machine I'm working from at the moment, home PC is XP Pro) but I know XP is very similar Left click on my computer>manage>disk management. This will bring up a console where you can format and partition drives, set file system etc. I think XP calls it something different to format but it does the same thing. After this my drives were recognised and worked fine. Make sure jumpers on drives are set correctly of course. I had one drive that wouldn't go no matter what, it turned out to be a faulty IDE cable, took out the fancy rounded one and put in a cheap ribbon job and away it went. Make sure you're using the 80 pin IDE cable if you want to get good speed out of your drive. I think the older 40 pin ones will work but they're not recommended for drives above ATA66. Make sure DMA is enabled, I think XP does this by default but I'm not sure about W2K Good luck Krafty |
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| 157470 | 2003-07-04 18:39:00 | Sorry Dr Sputnik, That was right click on my computer, not left, cheers, Krafty |
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