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Thread: NEW seagate HDD not recognized?

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    maebach's Avatar Team FST Captain
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    I got my new seagate drive from seagate after my other one broke. I put this one in, I took off the pin item that was set to master, I plugged in the IDE cord, and the powercord. Now when I started the computer I went into the BIOS, and set the Primary Slave to ST311600 etc. The model # is something like that. I went to device manager and it's under HDD's. But in 'My Computer', it only shows 'C:'. How can this be? I've installed many HDD's before but have never seen this.

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    try actualling using the jumpers? by pins i assume you went the jumpers,,,

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    maebach's Avatar Team FST Captain
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    yea the jumpers, I took them off.

    http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/...ies6family.gif

    should they be at 'cable'select'?

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    Go into Disk Management.

    Right click 'My Computer'>select Manage>Disk Management.

    The drive should show there and you need to create at least one partition on it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234 View Post
    Go into Disk Management.

    Right click 'My Computer'>select Manage>Disk Management.

    The drive should show there and you need to create at least one partition on it.
    Yep.

    I think that's the exact same thing you told me about 6 months ago. Worked perfectly.


    yo

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    maebach's Avatar Team FST Captain
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    thanks vb1234 and skizo


    ITs 160gb, so should I format it to 160gb? Or have 2 partitions, like 100 and 60?
    Last edited by maebach; 09-13-2006 at 01:15 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by maebach View Post
    thanks vb1234 and skizo


    ITs 160gb, so should I format it to 160gb? Or have 2 partitions, like 100 and 60?
    That's completely your choice based on your needs.

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    too bad i wasnt right.....

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    I wish hd manufacturers would include some sort of card explaining all this, I see this question asked at the very least once a week...
    Who the hell plasma cuts their own case and uses ultrasonic polishing baths on their evaporators?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Global Jihad View Post
    too bad i wasnt right.....

    yea, you would've got the super sweet prize!






    so anyways, Im going with the 100gb and 60gb. Keep media on the 60 and other stuff on the 100. I guess partitioing will make it faster and more organized.

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