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| Thread ID: 94079 | 2008-10-13 12:57:00 | PC Can't See Second Hard Drive and Boot Up Issues | robortiz59 (14239) | Press F1 |
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| 711961 | 2008-10-25 04:54:00 | Are the IDE controllers set to AUTO detect?, they should switch to LSA for the big disks. | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 711962 | 2008-10-25 23:50:00 | I figured out the formatting issue. Posting it here so it may help anybody else encountering a similar issue. I found the fix on the Hitachi web site, in the Support section. The new drive was set as a UDMA 6 drive. Some older PCs can't support UDMA 6, which I understand refers to the transfer rate of the drive. (Somebody please correct me if I'm mistaken.) The drive needed to be reset to operate as UDMA 5. I had to download a disk utility application from Hitachi and use it to reconfige the disk. I reset it, and was able format the drive with no error messages. Its now working perfectly. Thanks again, everybody, for your help. |
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| 711963 | 2008-10-26 00:03:00 | Umm you could be right. Most of the older pc's I had, only went to / supported DMA 4 or 5. I thought Windows (well XP didnt support DMA 6). I had read that XP was going to support it tho. Guess I was wrong, when I made this system up, as the SATA 2 hdd in this, supports DMA 6. Cant say I've seen an IDE hdd that supports DMA 6 tho. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 711964 | 2008-10-26 02:03:00 | I figured out the formatting issue. Posting it here so it may help anybody else encountering a similar issue. I found the fix on the Hitachi web site, in the Support section. The new drive was set as a UDMA 6 drive. Some older PCs can't support UDMA 6, which I understand refers to the transfer rate of the drive. (Somebody please correct me if I'm mistaken.) The drive needed to be reset to operate as UDMA 5. I had to download a disk utility application from Hitachi and use it to reconfige the disk. I reset it, and was able format the drive with no error messages. Its now working perfectly. Thanks again, everybody, for your help. Thank you for letting us all know the fix..:thumbs: |
SolMiester (139) | ||
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