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enoughfakefiles
02-11-2005, 07:31 PM
I`ve just put a new hard drive in my pc and set my original one to master the the new one to slave but when i go in to my computer there in no new drive only the original c drive.???

Please help. :D
Darth Sushi
02-11-2005, 08:37 PM
Did you go into the bios to detect it?
tesco
02-11-2005, 09:20 PM
First before the BIOS a quick thing to try is right clicking my computer>click manage>disk management

If the drive is there right click it and go to create partition. Make the partition then format it and you're done. :)


If not then you will need to go into the bios, click "standard cmos settings" or something similar, then press the key it says for "auto detect drives" or setup the drives manually if that doesn't work/there is no option.\
knowing exactly what motherboard might help. ;)
enoughfakefiles
02-11-2005, 09:20 PM
Did you go into the bios to detect it?

It was in the bios and set to auto detect.I`ve managed to get it to detect it now and just formated it but this is what it says now.

http://img176.exs.cx/img176/1892/untitled1copy9zs.jpg

Is this right.????

My other hard drives also a 120Gb but it say there`s only 45Gb used .

http://img108.exs.cx/img108/921/untitled1copy2qo.jpg

So why does my new drive say that there`s 67Gb used but 111Gb free.??? :unsure:
tesco
02-11-2005, 09:23 PM
that says 67mb used... :P
and 9gb would be lost to formatting + the fact that hard drive manufacturers count a gb as 1000mb (and a mb as 1000kb) but windows counts a gb as 1024mb (and a mb as 1024kb). ;)
enoughfakefiles
02-11-2005, 09:31 PM
that says 67mb used... :P
and 9gb would be lost to formatting + the fact that hard drive manufacturers count a gb as 1000mb (and a mb as 1000kb) but windows counts a gb as 1024mb (and a mb as 1024kb). ;)

Dam your young eyes. :lol:

It`s been a long day and i`m a noOb at this thing. :rolleyes:
tesco
02-11-2005, 09:42 PM
Dam your young eyes. :lol:

It`s been a long day and i`m a noOb at this thing. :rolleyes:
couldn't you tell by the pie graph? it was all white, meaning completely empty. :P
enoughfakefiles
02-11-2005, 09:54 PM
couldn't you tell by the pie graph? it was all white, meaning completely empty. :P

Yes i noticed the pie graph but could`nt fathem out why i thought it said Gb instead of Mb. :P