[Ham-Computers] WINDOWS XP doesn't see HD

[Don]

will do AGAIN
thanks am rechecking everything


Don
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Don.

I use NT5SP4, not XP, and had no idea that the dummies in Redmond had come
up
with yet another drive format.  But I started to suggest earlier that at
this
point, IF you need any of the 6GB that you said were on the older drive, you
try temporarily to revert to the previous configuration (i.e., pull the 40
and
reinstall the 30 as the Master and boot drive) and back up what you need off
of the older drive.  Then configure the machine the way that you want it
(with
both drives), and partition and format the old drive with the new OS.

Also, and I imagine you already checked this, but make sure the new drive is
strapped as Master, not Cable Select.  When you boot it with both drives
reconnected, stop in the BIOS and look carefully every place that has
anything to
do with drives and make sure what's reported looks like what you expect or
what
you want.

In a message dated 2/5/2005 4:25:08 PM Central Standard Time,
rollyg at earthlink.net writes:
> I question the type of formatting on the two drives. Left to its own
> devices, windows XP has a new disk format that is different than older
> versions of Windows. I am not sure, but I suspect the master (new) drive
is
> formatted in the new format while the old drive is formatted like windows
98
> etc.
>
> Possibly, and its just a guess, windows XP cannot talk to differently
> formatted drives in the same machine.

Robert Downs - Houston
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