Article View: alt.comp.hardware
Article #861Re: Installing used hard drive without formatting
From: Rod Speed
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 18:23
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 18:23
35 lines
2417 bytes
2417 bytes
Mark B. <some@othertime.org> wrote in message news:JSbE8.77044$qU1.18400816@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com... > INCORRECT! Fraid not. > Operating systems DO NOT just "see" IDE hard drives that > have not been detected by BIOS or configured in BIOS. Fraid so. Thats been true for years now, particularly with Win9x and the NT derivatives. > Very simple; if the IDE hard drive ain't listed in the > BIOS table, it ain't there as far as the OS is concerned. Fraid so. Win9x and the NT derivatives particularly scan for drives themselves, so it doesnt matter if the bios doesnt see them when the drive isnt the boot drive. > The exception is SCSI hard drives, in which case the SCSI > card must be able to access and recognize the drive. Fraid its much more complicated than you claim. > Philo <philo@plazaearth.com> wrote >> although you should have your bios >> set to auto...to detect the drive. >> even if it's not set in the bios...your operating >> system should still detect the drive. >> if you have not yet run fdisk and created partitions, it will not show up >> so you need to do that and be sure that you partition your *second* drive!
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<abrkmc$kpak8$1@ID-69072.news.dfncis.de>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!cpe-203-51-60-147.nsw.bigpond.net.AU!not-for-mailReferences:
<3ce0549d$1@duster.adelaide.on.net> <ue0mqae7n2dede@corp.supernews.com> <JSbE8.77044$qU1.18400816@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,c2ad4e68a3d717 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,c2ad4e68a3d717 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,c2ad4e68a3d717 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-14 11:23:11 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!cpe-203-51-60-147.nsw.bigpond.net.AU!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,aus.computers.ibm-pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Subject: Re: Installing used hard drive without formatting Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 04:23:14 +1000 Lines: 38 Message-ID: <abrkmc$kpak8$1@ID-69072.news.dfncis.de> References: <3ce0549d$1@duster.adelaide.on.net> <ue0mqae7n2dede@corp.supernews.com> <JSbE8.77044$qU1.18400816@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe-203-51-60-147.nsw.bigpond.net.au (203.51.60.147) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1021400589 21801608 203.51.60.147 (16 [69072]) 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