Re: Problem 80 wire cable for hard disk

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From: thund3rstruck
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:42

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richard wrote:

> I'm amazed that you could even get the 40 wire cable to connect to the same
> connector as the 80 wire. They're generally designed so that you CAN'T do
> that.

  Connectors are the same for the 80 as the 40

> Was the first drive you checked properly initialized and formatted per
> maniufacturer's instructions with the provided disk? That's generally why
> it isn't recognized. Did the other drives work elswhere?

  The bios should see it if it's configured right via 
jumpers/connector/etc. Formatting or not does not matter

> In the device manager, do you get any errors?

  If the drive on ide0 isn't seen, how can he boot to Windows, much less 
check DevMgr?

				n0i

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