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Title: Whits help Post by: magicroundabout on Thursday, February 10, 2005, 22:03:27 getting rather annoyed now.
I have just purchased a new external hard drive and case. I have connected them all up and plugged them in. On the instructions it says it should automaticly give itself a drive letter. but it doesn't. So i though it needs formatting but i can't seem to do this. I have tryed running fdisk and it wont let me. says it can't find it. i need help as it's really annoying me :evil: Title: Whits help Post by: Whits on Thursday, February 10, 2005, 22:05:24 What size Hard drive and which version of windows
Title: Whits help Post by: Whits on Thursday, February 10, 2005, 22:08:36 http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/ATA%20Hard%20Drives&downloadID=11
download and install that, normally if the drive is to big its not recognized in windows, this should stop that Title: Whits help Post by: magicroundabout on Thursday, February 10, 2005, 22:15:05 i'm using XP and the hard drive is a Maxtor 160gb ATA/133 hdd
Title: Whits help Post by: magicroundabout on Thursday, February 10, 2005, 22:20:18 still no joy from that download
Title: Whits help Post by: oxford_fan on Thursday, February 10, 2005, 22:23:18 had the same problem mate.
fucking hell my short term memory is awful - i can't remember how i solved it and it took 2 days. Title: Whits help Post by: Whits on Thursday, February 10, 2005, 22:23:32 http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1335&p_created=1042574998&p_sid=BUnDEoth&p_lva=960&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MzQyJnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9c2VhcmNoX25sJnBfcHJvZF9sdmwxPSZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMj0mcF9jYXRfbHZsMT04MyZwX2NhdF9sdmwyPSZwX3BhZ2U9MQ**&p_li=
I remember me and oxford fan did this over chrimbo ( http://thetownend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=182&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=hard+drive&start=15 ) Title: Whits help Post by: oxford_fan on Thursday, February 10, 2005, 22:26:42 http://thetownend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=182&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15
this was the solution: http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1335&p_created=1042574998&p_sid=BUnDEoth&p_lva=960&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MzQyJnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9c2VhcmNoX25sJnBfcHJvZF9sdmwxPSZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMj0mcF9jYXRfbHZsMT04MyZwX2NhdF9sdmwyPSZwX3BhZ2U9MQ**&p_li= should sort ya Title: Whits help Post by: Whits on Thursday, February 10, 2005, 22:28:16 Quote from: "oxford_fan" http://thetownend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=182&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 this was the solution: http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1335&p_created=1042574998&p_sid=BUnDEoth&p_lva=960&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MzQyJnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9c2VhcmNoX25sJnBfcHJvZF9sdmwxPSZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMj0mcF9jYXRfbHZsMT04MyZwX2NhdF9sdmwyPSZwX3BhZ2U9MQ**&p_li= should sort ya great minds think alike 8) 8) Title: Whits help Post by: magicroundabout on Thursday, February 10, 2005, 22:33:35 whits your the daddy.
cheers also OF. formatting as i type. Title: Whits help Post by: Simon Pieman on Thursday, February 10, 2005, 22:36:29 Q. How many microsoft programmers does it take to write reliable software?
A. Don't know, it's never been done. Title: Whits help Post by: Whits on Thursday, February 10, 2005, 22:37:27 Happy Days :\/ :\/ :\/
Title: Whits help Post by: magicroundabout on Thursday, February 10, 2005, 22:37:36 Quote Q. How many microsoft programmers does it take to write reliable software? A. Don't know, it's never been done. :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick |