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Different Drive Geometries?

I got a 40gig seagate from my friend recently and have it hooked up through a PCI IDE card. I got some of his data off of it and now I would like to reformat it and make it my own. It came from a compaq so the drive has two partitions, the system_sav partition and then everything else. I...
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- Mar 12, 2006
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Hard Drive Won't Show Up In 'My Computer'

yep, boomerang got it right about the same time i found that same page. For some great intelligent reason microsoft only put dynamic disk reading into XP Pro and not XP Home. My computer at school is on pro but this current one is on home. Man i f'in love microsoft, so many great ideas coming...
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- Post #8
- Dec 20, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Hard Drive Won't Show Up In 'My Computer'

right right i should've spelled it correctly the first time anyway. i've checked the cables and everything and swapped it around inside the case to different ide connections and everything else i can think of. I'd like to think that it can't be my hard drive being bad, but I think it might be...
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- Post #5
- Dec 20, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Hard Drive Won't Show Up In 'My Computer'

nah no typos in the detection, i even took the huge amount of effort and fixed it for you *HUGE*
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- Post #3
- Dec 20, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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What To Do With Old Computer?

i agree with this suggestion or overclock it and use it as a space heater
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- Post #5
- Dec 20, 2005
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Hard Drive Won't Show Up In 'My Computer'

I brought my hard drive with all my media on it back from school for break. First i tried to put it in an external case, but found out that since i formatted it as dynamic it won't work from an enclosure. So i threw it into my machine and now I still can't navigate to it; it shows up under the...
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- Dec 20, 2005
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Computer Building
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PCI Diagnostic Cards

My dad does a lot of family computer tech stuff and I think for christmas I will get him a PCI Diagnostic card, unfourtunatly i have no idea about them. Anyone have any reccomendations or advice?
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- Dec 19, 2005
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Computer Building
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External Drive Not Mounting

alright i think i've found the problem. I went into the disk management a la trowa's suggestion and it says that the hard drive is dynamic and also says foreign, i have no idea what these mean really, but next to it there is a 'yield sign with an error'. Anyone got any suggestions off of this...
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- Post #9
- Dec 18, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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External Drive Not Mounting

usb, it is a 2.0 and i tried both 2.0 and 1.0
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- Post #6
- Dec 18, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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External Drive Not Mounting

nah, no dice with slave or cable select. I can't remember how i have the drive formatted, NTFS or FAT, but would that matter at all?
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- Post #4
- Dec 18, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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External Drive Not Mounting

yea, i have it set to master, the last hard drive in was also set to master. maybe i'll try slave just for kicks
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- Post #3
- Dec 18, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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External Drive Not Mounting

I took my seagate 120gb hard drive out of one of my computers, which it was working normally in, and put it into an external hard drive case, which was working normally with the hard drive that was previously in it. I then hooked it up to my machine and it recognizes it, says found new hardware...
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- Dec 18, 2005
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Computer Building
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pay no mind

YES! that picture is awesome
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- Post #6
- Nov 11, 2005
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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pay no mind

haha you clever pricks. I've tried googling for a long time but it their homeless weirdo's department is out of stock i guess
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- Post #5
- Nov 11, 2005
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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pay no mind

i'm a poor human being and realize now i operate google terribly. i'm punching out now
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- Nov 11, 2005
- Replies: 9
- Forum: OT Discussion Club

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