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Bios and device manager see HD, but My Computer doesn't
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Posted by: onanism
I just put together a new computer, and the 80 gig HD I got from newegg, doesn't want to show up in My Computer. I used my old HD as primary and put the new HD as a slave, and when I look in the bios and in the device manager, it shows up. Also, when I open up a dos window, i can get into the primary but not the slave (same when I use a Win95 boot disk).
Is there any way I can reformat it if I can't see it? Or get it to show up?
Posted by: redwench
what format did you give it?
Posted by: Outlaw
Did you remember to make a partition first?
Posted by: fibbi
use a partion program like partition magic to format it to whatever format you want. XP/200/nt=ntfs, 98/95=fat32
Posted by: Kdr Kane
Or you could just use fdisk.exe and format.exe. They're much cheaper. 
Posted by: Rodik
If you set it as primary then you have to make it the active partition using fdisk. Also, your computer wouldn't start if the slave HD (the old one) was containing boot-partition, but as you write it I assume it does anyway, so you maybe failed in switching them.
Posted by: fibbi
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Originally posted by Kdr Kane
Or you could just use fdisk.exe and format.exe. They're much cheaper.
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the problem with that is if he's using NT/XP and he uses the dos Format.exe, itt'l format it as FAT32.
Posted by: Outlaw
That's why they made convert.exe. 
And FAT32 has it's advantages too sometimes.
Posted by: onanism
I have a boot disk with format.exe and fdisk.exe on it. But neither of those programs sees the HD (they do see my old one though).
Posted by: redwench
the hd is formatted in ntfs, the boot disk wont see it. youll have to use xp to reformat it fat32 if you want to be able to read it in dos or with win98.
Posted by: fibbi
i'm telling you, just download a 30 day trial of partition magic or something, and it'll make your life a lot easier. It'll see any kind of partition from any OS, and format it to whatever you want. Works like a charm.
Posted by: onanism
fdisk can see any type of partition, regardles of the file system or whether or not it has a partition.
besides, no matter what setup I use (old-praimary and new-slave, vice versa, or with each one set as primary alone), fdisk can see the old HD (regardles of the file system or whether or not it has a partition, I've tried it all) and not the new one.
Posted by: Outlaw
Did you also try the option in fdisk to switch to another hd? I think it's option 5 from the main menu.
Posted by: rexoverbey
Put the new hard drive in by itself. Set it to cable select then make partition with fdisk and format. Then put your old drive back as master, new drive as slave. When your back in windows convert to ntfs using the comand prompt [convert (drive letter): /fs:ntfs ] or reformat the drive in explorer to ntfs. Hope this helps!
Posted by: onanism
found the answer!
http://www.opentechsupport.net/foru...t+see+harddrive
it was kinda similar to this, except it wasn't a foreign disk, it was called something else.
thanks to all that helped.
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