Mark Allanson
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| posted on 26/3/09 at 01:43 PM |
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New hard drive
I had a hard drive pop last week, it was old, fully backed up so no problem. I bought a new one from ebuyer - cheap as chips.
I set it to slave, fitted it, DEL'd to bios and it recognised, F10 and exit. Start up windows, to my computer but do drive.
I have done this dozens of times without any problems, what am I doing wrong? Showing up lovely in BIOS but not windows. I thought it may not be
formatted, but how do you format it if it isn't showing in windows?
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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Staple balls
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| posted on 26/3/09 at 01:46 PM |
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Off the top of my head.
Start > control panel > admin tools > computer management > disk manager.
The drive should show in there, you'll need to initialise it, then format.
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tegwin
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| posted on 26/3/09 at 01:48 PM |
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Yup... its not formatted..
Right click on "my computer" and click manage...
you cna then format unparitioned space
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 26/3/09 at 01:52 PM |
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Thanks - doing it now. God I love this site
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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britishtrident
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| posted on 26/3/09 at 03:38 PM |
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After you install windows it is a good trick is to download and run "Hijackthis" and save the log file that way you can keep a track of
any extra startup programs that get installed when you install new software.
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mediabloke
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| posted on 26/3/09 at 07:53 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
After you install windows it is a good trick is to download and run "Hijackthis" and save the log file that way you can keep a track of
any extra startup programs that get installed when you install new software.
Yep, and if you don't already have them to hand, make a CD / DVD with all your drivers on when you've finished. That way, you don't
have to scratch about to find loads of different CDs to find them when you rebuild. 
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Keith Weiland
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| posted on 26/3/09 at 07:58 PM |
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Better yet create a ghost image after you have installed all of your drivers and software and have set up windows like you want it. Reinstall takes
15 minutes then and you are fully back up and running.
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Staple balls
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| posted on 26/3/09 at 07:58 PM |
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http://driverpacks.net/
http://www.nliteos.com/
nuff said 
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