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drew@absolut.demon.co.uk (drew) wrote:



>I have acquired a second hard disk and am having
>a bit of a problem setting it up.

>I intend to use it as a second hard disk.

>My BIOS doesn't seem to detect it in its detection
>routine.

>The second drive is a Western Digital Caviar 31600

>Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.


Thanks for the replies, the latest position is, that using some disk
management software obtained I have managed to get
the BIOS to detect the WD drive as D and put a single partition on it
(btw yes I have set the jumpers as slave, my original IBM 527Mb drive
appears to be happy without altering the jumpers).

The problem now is that I can't format it. DOS says that "format not
supported on drive D, format terminated". 

Is this because my BIOS isn't a translating one?

Andy
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