HELP with Hard Drive

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  1. Desooper

    Desooper Member

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    I need some help, PLEASE. I put a NEW 80 GIG Hard Drive in my XBox for a mod, I then got a bigger one and took out my 80 GIG and need it for my computer, heres my problem, I install it into my computer, XP Home, Dell, 1G Ram and it reads in the BIOS but will NOT show up anywhere else, Example if I go to START, MY COMPUTER it only shows my C Drive, I ran the seagate disk and it will NOT format it, can someone help me out here, thanks.
     
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    try removing the jumpers, xp wouldnt even recognise my hard drive till i took the jumpers off of it, worth a try
     
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    Thanks for the response, I removed the jumpers and still the same thing, thanks.
     
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  5. Desooper

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    Thanks for the response, it (MY HARD DRIVE) does NOT show up in disk management, any other ideas, thanks again.
     
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    is the ide cable a 40 or 80 wire tho both use 40pin connectors?? what make is your c:drive??
     
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    I beleive it is an 80 and my C Drive is a Maxtor.
     
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    set the seagate as master on ide2 with the original master drive set as slave for the seagate or maxtor
     
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    OK I did what you said and that still does not work, I am really stumped on this one, any help will be appreciated, thanks all.
     
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    is there an exclamation mark in device manager & is the drive shown in the device manager??
     
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    The same thing happens with the Panasonic DVR model DMR-E85H 120GB hard drive. I know because I thought that I could back-up my movies before sending it in for repair. There are a lot of people on this website trying to figre out how to access the data on their hard drives and if anyone can get their OS to recognize the drive they will be able to help a lot of people, so I wish you and the rest of us good luck.
     
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    is there an exclamation mark in device manager NO & is the drive shown in the device manager YES. any more info would greatly help as so far nothing has worked for me, thanks for all your replys.
     
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    remove the drive from device manager than restart windows to see if it finds it properly or not
     
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    Tried that comes back in device manager and windows still does not see drive. Thanks for all the help and any more advice greatly appreciated. Thank you.
     
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    do you or can you get a win98 boot disk to try something
     
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    As ddp suggested, if you can grab a boot floppy to get into DOS straight from the BIOS, you can theoretically format the drive there, and the partition should appear in windows. use the fdisk utility to do this.
     
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    right click on my computer and select manage and then select disk managment and try formatting it there and then it will show up in my computer.

    Barty
     
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