Lost hard drive

bet1imore · 11-18-2008, 10:55 AM

Install HD as Slave Cmos shows hard drive installed! But Win XP or Dos there is no drive there. Will do Maxtor boot CD today to see if it does anything? Thanks any help would be great!

**linderman** · 11-18-2008, 11:50 AM

if this is a new hard drive ...... it will need to be formatted before it will be seen and usuable in windows ?

you will see the drive and can format the drive from within Disk management or use the hard drive manufacturers software to set-up the drive ?

Haggis95 · 11-22-2008, 05:05 AM

I was just gonna post a similar thing,then I found this
Linderman, you rock

**linderman** · 11-22-2008, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Haggis95

I was just gonna post a similar thing,then I found this
Linderman, you rock

....... there are plenty of others who will say "Au contraire"

11-18-2008, 10:55 AM	#1 (permalink)
bet1imore Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 4 OS: win XP Service pack 1	Lost hard drive Install HD as Slave Cmos shows hard drive installed! But Win XP or Dos there is no drive there. Will do Maxtor boot CD today to see if it does anything? Thanks any help would be great!

11-18-2008, 11:50 AM	#2 (permalink)
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11-22-2008, 05:05 AM	#3 (permalink)
Haggis95 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Dunfermline,Scotland Posts: 44 OS: vista sp1	Re: Lost hard drive I was just gonna post a similar thing,then I found this Linderman, you rock