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Master Geek


Topic # 17030 8-Nov-2007 17:57
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I have an IDE Hardrive as my main Hardrive but i brought a SATA the other day and connected it but it doesn't come up under my computer. when i boot windows it says its looking for a driver but it can't find one so it just sits there under safley remove hardware


Any Ideas Guys???

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  Reply # 94322 8-Nov-2007 19:08
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Hard drives actually have to partitioned and formatted before they'll ever appear in My Computer. Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management.




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  Reply # 94327 8-Nov-2007 19:35
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Cheers yeah i did that not long after i posted this topic. my neibour told me :)

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