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Before using the hard disk as a primary on the new motherboard did you
reset the jumper on the back of the hard disk after using it as a slave
drive?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan E. Schutte" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Hard Drive Info not recognized on new computer
> I have found out that the hard drive most likely is not the problem. I
got
> a new hard drive in yesterday, and when I hooked it up, it could not be
set
> up either on this computer. It did work on another computer though.
>
> Every time I tried to use Western Digital's Disk to set up the drive, it
> would go through everything to the end, then say it was unable to find the
> partition table on the drive. If I tried to just use fdisk from a win98
> boot disk, it would act like it did everything fine, but when you go back
> in to fdisk..... it hadn't created a partition. The only thing I can
think
> of right now, is that the new motherboard is bad. I am getting that
> replaced to see if that is the problem, but if you have any other ideas,
> let me know.
>
> >At 09:53 AM 12/3/00 -0600, you wrote:
> >>I am switching a hard drive from one computer to another. The computer
I'm
> >>putting it in is a brand new motherboard, etc. but it acts as though the
> >>hard drive hasn't been fdisked. I don't want to try fdisking it to see
if
> >>this allows it to work because I don't want to lose all the information
on
> >>the drive. I can hook it up to another computer as a secondary drive,
and
> >>it shows everything on the drive. It was working in the original
computer
> >>also, but it is now in a few pieces and I don't want to put it back
> >>together just to see if it still works in it.
> >
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