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20th Sep 2007, 05:28 AM
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Reputation: 43  Rep Power: 2 |  Secondary IDE HDD I just like to know if i put the right setting for this secondary hard disk that i place into my rig recently. In BIOS, it detected as Primary Slave IDE. I check my device manager list, it stated that it's working properly but i can't seem to find the drive in my computer? did i miss out any step?
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20th Sep 2007, 09:26 AM
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Reputation: 1998  Rep Power: 37 | Right click My Computer, then click Manage go to Disk Management.
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20th Sep 2007, 01:54 PM
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Reputation: 2958 Rep Power: 65 | You need to go to Disk Management like zy said. Do you see the drive there? If so, then it's working fine. You just need to create a partition and format it.
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22nd Sep 2007, 12:54 AM
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Reputation: 25 Rep Power: 0 | I do this everyday so here are the steps in a little more detail: 1. Right-Click My Computer and choose Manage 2. Expand Storage and you should see Disk Management (in the left-side tree) 3. Click on Disk Management and a Disk Initialization Wizard should pop up. If it does not, move on to step 4. Just click Next a bunch of times and it will be initialized. You'll now see a drive listed on the bottom right labeled "Drive #". To the right will be a box labeled "Unallocated". 4. Right-Click the box that says Unallocated and choose "New Partition...". 5. Click Next a bunch of times and you should be set.
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22nd Sep 2007, 03:56 PM
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Reputation: 0  Rep Power: 0 | The first time I ran into this problem, it took me days to figure out why my primary Sata drive wasn't showing up. Even the PC tech i got to come and check it couldn't figure it out. Rather funny when i look back at it now. Needless to say I've learnt quite a bit since then  SkylineRemix, their right, that should solve your problem.
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29th Sep 2007, 07:57 PM
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Reputation: 43 Rep Power: 2 | sorry for the late reply... problem solve already.. but i'm not sure if i did the right setting in BIOS or not... I'll update later when i have time... busy with exams nowadays... studying like shit...
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30th Sep 2007, 01:14 AM
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