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Thread ID: 14598	2002-01-13 05:36:00	probs installing 40 gig HD	Guest (0)	Press F1

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31041	2002-01-13 05:36:00	can anybody please help i have a 333mhz 128 mb ram the motherboard is a Full YES i have a 10 gig h drive and i'm trying to install a 40 gig seagate ata i'm having nothing but probs i've used the seagate disk installer followed the instructions to the tee problems are: boot up freezes when drive is installed even after running seagates disk manager and setting bios to auto for HD one successful (or so i thought )install i made had the files i was copying to the new HD freeze this kept happening so i unistalled the drive and tried again any help or a step by step would be most helpful hope i have given enough info thankyou	Guest (0)
31042	2002-01-13 06:25:00	What Operating System are you running? You may not need to use the Seagate Disk Manager to install your drive.	Guest (0)
31043	2002-01-13 08:15:00	I also have a seagate 40g HD. Luckily mine was installed for me and I'm not sure if this helps or not but when I reformatted I had no end of trouble trying to install...I found that the drive was too big for my dos to see properly. After partitioning it in dos away I went. Iwas also using a seagate cd and that would only cause more problems...the puter would install windows in safe mode only and kept telling me I only had 8gb....	Guest (0)
31044	2002-01-14 02:19:00	the OS is win 98 is it possible the HD could be faulty? thanks for your replys	Guest (0)
31045	2002-06-20 03:04:00	When you fitted the new drive, did you check the jumper settings on the back of the new drive? Your existing one should be set as master, with the new one set as slave. There should be instructions for this included with the drive. If not most drives have a jumper configuration diagram located on a sticker on the drive. When this has been varified, go into the BIOS, and recheck that the drive detect settings are set to auto. when you reboot you should see on the POST screen (which is the first Black/white screen that comes up when booting) the new drive. If the drive has been detected, all is well. The next step is formatting it. My preference is Partition Magic, which makes the job pretty easy. When this us compete, you should then be able to see the new drive in My Computer in Windows Hope this helps	Guest (0)
31046	2002-06-20 03:04:00	thank you to everyone who replied the final outcome was i took the drive back to the pc shop swapped it for a 20 gig bam no probs thinking about it later i could have done what Dipstick suggested and split the 40 gig you live and learn i guess thanks again to everyone	Guest (0)
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