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Adding a second (large) hard drive
I have a happily working WinME system, with a 20GB hard
drive. When I add a second drive (in this case 160GB, but the same was true of 80GB), the BIOS happily finds it, but WinME doesn't seem to realise it exists. Has anyone got a fix for this? |
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Adding a second (large) hard drive
If unformatted, WinMe won't recognise it. You must FDISK and Format a new
disk in DOS before WinMe will see it. Take a look at the following KB article, "How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk" http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;255867 HTH Mart "Dr Wart Hoover" wrote in message ... I have a happily working WinME system, with a 20GB hard drive. When I add a second drive (in this case 160GB, but the same was true of 80GB), the BIOS happily finds it, but WinME doesn't seem to realise it exists. Has anyone got a fix for this? |
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Adding a second (large) hard drive
If you ever find out the answer to this, could you let me
know? Cause I don't see any answers in here to anything! But.. I have also installed a new hard drive, 120 gig to a 40 gig. I had bought a control card for this. But the control card driver halts my system if winMe should use it.. so instead it chooses not to. So that's what I am looking for here.. is to find out if maybe WinMe is saying that I don't need the extra driver that comes with this promise ultra 133 TX2 (tm) IDE controller.WinMe has something called ASD and the properties to just sort of file this driver away, yet not use it. I just don't know if thats what I should do or not now. Cause in the device manager it's got the yellow exlamation mark on it. I want to get rid of that. -----Original Message----- I have a happily working WinME system, with a 20GB hard drive. When I add a second drive (in this case 160GB, but the same was true of 80GB), the BIOS happily finds it, but WinME doesn't seem to realise it exists. Has anyone got a fix for this? . |
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Adding a second (large) hard drive
Lynda
Your situation is entirely different to the OP's - please stick to your own thread, where I've posted a response. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "lynda" wrote in message ... If you ever find out the answer to this, could you let me know? Cause I don't see any answers in here to anything! But.. I have also installed a new hard drive, 120 gig to a 40 gig. I had bought a control card for this. But the control card driver halts my system if winMe should use it.. so instead it chooses not to. So that's what I am looking for here.. is to find out if maybe WinMe is saying that I don't need the extra driver that comes with this promise ultra 133 TX2 (tm) IDE controller.WinMe has something called ASD and the properties to just sort of file this driver away, yet not use it. I just don't know if thats what I should do or not now. Cause in the device manager it's got the yellow exlamation mark on it. I want to get rid of that. -----Original Message----- I have a happily working WinME system, with a 20GB hard drive. When I add a second drive (in this case 160GB, but the same was true of 80GB), the BIOS happily finds it, but WinME doesn't seem to realise it exists. Has anyone got a fix for this? . |
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