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Article #858Re: Installing used hard drive without formatting
From: Se yung Yen
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 07:50
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 07:50
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you are installing the second HDD at your current system. so, your Fixed HDD possible is primary or secondary drive. it's doesn't matter it's pri or second if only one drive. and now you have 2 drive, you might wanted to boot from the fixed HDD, make sure you set the jumper become primary, and your mobile HDD is secondary. then to confrim at cmos, do auto detect HDD you will see the capacity of 2 drives. "case" <case.sinclair@imvs.sa.gov.au> wrote in message news:3ce0549d$1@duster.adelaide.on.net... > Hello all, > I am having difficulty installing a second hard drive into my Win98 SE PC > that was > used in another machine. > I installed the drive using a 5.5 inch bay removable rack that I bought so > it could be easily removed. > I installed the drive and windows seemed to recognise it and asked me to > reboot due to configuration of new hardware, however now when booted it > doesn't show up as part of the system in My computer. > > Do I need to use bios settings to let the system know what I have installed, > or should it have automatically detect it? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, as there are many pages dealing with > installing and formatting a drive, but apparently none dealing with > installing without formatting on the web. > > hope someone can help. > > thanks > Case > > > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,c2ad4e68a3d717 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,c2ad4e68a3d717 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,c2ad4e68a3d717 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-14 00:48:57 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news1.optus.net.au!optus!bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au!news.connect.usq.edu.au From: "Se yung Yen" <d1130681@mail.connect.usq.edu.au> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,aus.computers.ibm-pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Subject: Re: Installing used hard drive without formatting Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 17:50:03 +1000 Organization: University of Queensland Lines: 47 Message-ID: <3ce0c166$1@news.connect.usq.edu.au> References: <3ce0549d$1@duster.adelaide.on.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: heracles.usq.edu.au X-Trace: bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au 1021362536 31682 139.86.208.29 (14 May 2002 07:48:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@uq.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 May 2002 07:48:56 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.86.162.13 X-Original-Trace: 14 May 2002 17:48:54 +1000, 139.86.162.13 X-Abuse: abuse@usq.edu.au