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9th Jul 2007, 09:18
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Problem: Not enough HD space. Solution, get a new one. A BIGGER one, a faster one. Only, it doesn't recogise my new drive.
Using the (frankly, irritating) Windows Help and Support dialogue, it appears my computer can only support up to 4 IDE or SATA drives, in total. Which makes no sense. Near as I can figure, it means i have to get rid of either one of my DVD drives, both IDE, or one of my existing hard drives, one SATA and one IDE. Can someone please help me find another solution? pretty please? |
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9th Jul 2007, 09:24
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Hello Panda
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Welcome to TCF Can you list what drives you have and the hierarchy of them please. Example; C = 30GB E = 120GB set as Secondary master F = 60GB set as partition on secondary master. Sata 1,2,3 etc Boot sequences. My System: #
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9th Jul 2007, 09:52
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Right.
Primary IDE: C, 170GB Secondary IDE: Master E, DVD Reader Slave F, DVD ReWriter Sata 1: D, 370GB Sata2 Sata 2: --, 500GB Sata2 - this is the new one. Recognised in the BIOS but not by Windows. The boot order is E, F, C, D. D has the OS, XP Home installed. |
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9th Jul 2007, 10:03
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How much free space do you have on each drive?
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9th Jul 2007, 10:12
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ooof now you're getting technical... 133GB free on the IDE(C) and 288GB free on D. Which is unusual, because a week ago it told me they were 95% full. There's something odd going on here.
What would happen if I installed a copy of Vista on the new drive? I have one, which was due to be installed on the drive today. |
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9th Jul 2007, 10:19
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Do you have any screen capture software besides the trashy Prnt Scrn that windows has?
If not look at this and post a section of what things look like in Disk Management. http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm You can do this by clicking Manage Attachments further down in the Reply area. This is an example of what I mean. http://www.thecomputerforums.co.uk/f...oning-xp-4497/ |
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#7
9th Jul 2007, 11:22
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Here is the screenshot, taken with the fastStone software. I cropped it, though i have the original if necessary.
It is worth noting that disk 2, the one causing problems, initially read uninitialized (ignore spelling, please), until i told it to initilialise, and now reads Online status. |
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#8
9th Jul 2007, 11:46
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Please post the original as that is really hard to see Panda.
Number 2 drive just needs formatting though. |
