Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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She bought a hard drive the other day - she's got a 40gb but has filled it. So bought a 2nd 160 gb to run as well.
I installed it for her, set the jumper to slave. and it recognised the drive was there in the bios.
It said
Primary 0 - 40gb
Primary 1 - 160 gb
Secondary 0 - DVD/CD RW
Secondary 1 - CD player.
All cool I thought, but then when it booted into windows you go to run and it shows...
A: Floppy
C: 40gb
D: DVD/CD rw
E: CD
It's not showing the other hard drive!! What do I have to do to get it to show? Format it or something? and if yes how? Thought you had to do Format C: or whatever - but this drive isn't showing up a letter?
I've only put a new hard drive in to replace a old one before and the OS installation usually sorts it for me!
Anyone shed some light on this for me and my sis please 
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Jamescorsa97
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Registered: 19th Aug 04
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Im not totally sure but i think anything above 120gig has to be installed as SATA????? Or soemthing like that
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GREG 1
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Registered: 28th Jul 00
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Any pics of your sister 1st ?
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Rebrabuk
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Registered: 28th Mar 04
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Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management, select appropriate drive, right click, partition/format.
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Rebrabuk
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Pics of your sister would be a good token of appreciation as said above. 
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Half Pint
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As above
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Paul_J
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Cheers guys - and that works even if the windows doesn't see it and give a letter?
her name is dannie ^^
Just kidding - seriously I have no pics on my uni pc sorry.
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Rebrabuk
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Yep.
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Ren
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Registered: 16th Oct 04
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If its over 122gb and not a SATA drive, windows just sees 122gb and ignores the rest. But try the advice you just got given, and tell us how it goes
PS: Fit
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ed
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What version of Windos is it?
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Dan B
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To enable LBA support for drives larger than 137GB:
XP: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
2K: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098
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Cavey
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
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What rebrauk said basically if it's XP
Right click on my computer. manage, disk management and then find it on there, partition and assign letter
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Ren
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137gb, ah my bad
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