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Where the hell is my hard drive?

  • 06-01-2004 7:22pm
    #1
    tba
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭


    If anyone can help me on this it would be greatly appreciated

    I just installed a ATA 133 IDE controller card into a spare PCI slot, and it installed no problems.

    So along I come and put a 80 Gig ATA 133 on Channel 0 of the card.

    All is going well untill I reboot and find that Windows thinks that the new drive is a SCSI drive, all correctly installed (functioning properly as Windows puts it), but completely unaccesable from My Computer.

    Now Im a bit of a noob at this hardware lark but aren't ATA and SCSI two completely different protocols how could this happen and if this is normal how the hell can I get at my Hard Drive?


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  • #2
    zAbbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,987 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    The raid controller is recognised as scsi to deferentiate it from the ide stuff, go into admin tools, computer management, format the new drive.

    Its just unformatted thats all


  • #3
    CivilServant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭CivilServant


    Maybe you need to format ur hard drive first. My Computer, Manage, Disk Management


  • #4
    tba
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭tba


    Lads your bleedin Legends, Many blessings upon You and Yours from Me and Mine.


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