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installed a hard drive but I can't see it
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:43 pm
by Guest
I've bought a 200gig maxtor 16mb cache ata/133 hdd (6L200R0) and windows sees it, I can see it in the device manager, but I can't see or use it in the "my computer" window. wtf?
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:00 pm
by obsidian
Check in Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management.
Does the hard drive appear there? Does it report that it is working and formatted properly?
Personally though, I don't like Maxtor drives... just my opinion through people telling me horror stories about their failure rate. I have never owned one so don't take my word for it. I like Seagate drives.
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:26 pm
by shadd_.
disk signature wizard ----->
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:41 pm
by SOAPboy
Its not partitioned, nor formatted most likely..
Fdisk FTW
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:48 pm
by Kills On Site
Well I've worked with a good number of Maxtors and they have not failed me. Read this. Read my post in that of all the HDDs I've worked with. Once you go into the Disk Management and format the drive it will appear in My Computer. You can also acess the Disk Management by right-clicking My Computer> Manage> Disk Management. You can use a program my Partition Magic if you want.
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:52 pm
by SOAPboy
Or just use FDisk.. damn noobs and there point and click solutions..
:P
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:54 pm
by 4g3nt_Smith
SOAPboy wrote:Or just use FDisk.. damn noobs and there point and click solutions..
:P
Damn goths and making things much more difficult that required...
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 12:07 am
by shadd_.
why do any of that? right click the drive in disk management, go through the disk signature wizard(2 secs). now the drive is able to be partitioned any way you want through disk management.
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 12:10 am
by SOAPboy
4g3nt_Smith wrote:SOAPboy wrote:Or just use FDisk.. damn noobs and there point and click solutions..
:P
Damn goths and making things much more difficult that required...
^_^
Nah id use Partition magic too =P
just being an ass ^_^
KEKEKEKEKEKEKEEKE ZERG RUSH!!11!11
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 12:42 am
by 4g3nt_Smith
SOAPboy wrote:4g3nt_Smith wrote:SOAPboy wrote:Or just use FDisk.. damn noobs and there point and click solutions..
:P
Damn goths and making things much more difficult that required...
^_^
Nah id use Partition magic too =P
just being an ass ^_^
KEKEKEKEKEKEKEEKE ZERG RUSH!!11!11
Damn you, now I have the urge to go find my Starcraft copy and play.
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 12:45 am
by SOAPboy
^_^
kekeke
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 12:48 am
by Guest
obsidian wrote:Check in Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management.
Does the hard drive appear there? Does it report that it is working and formatted properly?
Personally though, I don't like Maxtor drives... just my opinion through people telling me horror stories about their failure rate. I have never owned one so don't take my word for it. I like Seagate drives.
Thanks man, formatted it so it works now. w00t
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 3:16 am
by AmIdYfReAk
smooth one toxic...