Slave Hard Drive Problems

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by souljah, May 2, 2005.

  1. ringofire

    ringofire Member

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    super9394: there are some tools at maxtor and westerndigitals web sites that will format and partition a drive. they usully will work on oher drives. might try that.
     
  2. souljah

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    to ddp - i formatted it and used the ntfs thing. did i do anything wrong?
     
  3. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    on a 3gig drive might be better to use fat32 as ntfs is good for a file over 4gig which you can't do on a 3gig drive.
     
  4. souljah

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    wats the difference between fat32 and the ntfs?
    anyway i formatted it to fat32 and nothing. it still says capacity - 1.84gig. now im in serious need of help.
     
  5. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    does bios see the drive as a 3gig. either repartition & reformat the drive in xp or use a win9x bootdisk that will show your c:drive as non-dos to delete the 3gig partition, remake the partition so can be formated
     
  6. pulsar

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    Baabaa, I had a similar prob with my zip drive not been recognised. I followed your instructions & assigned a drive letter, had to format though, works a treat now!!!!! I had lots of info on it, but I had all of it on my various 4 hard drives. Nice one, I have learnt something today!!!
     
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    Forgot about this thread......LOL

    Glad I could help pulsar...................
     

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