Why cant my hard drive be detected??

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  1. jnbean

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    Ok i have this 40 gb hard drive that bios will not detect..but when in windows as a slave will be detected..it shows up as working properly, but shows no icon...when its a slave it shows up in bios...but when its itself it wont....Ive checked cabels, jumpers, connections, whats wrong here....OH and this hard drive works fine by itself in other computers.
     
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    Did you format the drive?
     
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    I cant fomat it..... when i try to do a "format c:" it will say "format not suported on drive c:" then i try a fdisk and it will say "no fixed disks present"
     
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    Try going to Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management. If it shows there, you can enable it, then format it.
     
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