The first drive was definitely bad--I bought a new one and was able to see and format it with my desktop-- so i'll be sending that other one back--thanks for your assistance
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I replaced my laptop hard drive which was a fujitsu 40gb with a hitachi 160gb - but the laptop doesn't see the hard drive--i went into the bios and tried to manually input cylinders, heads, sectors -but the bios wouldn't let me adjust the sectors as high as I needed to--
i'm assuming a...
avtually...i tried a tonne of stuff...wound up partitioning my 250 into 2 drives ....so as much as i tried i was stuck with the partitioning routine and am still using that drive that way
I've downloaded service pack files and fixes and now need to reinstall windows - -but don't want to have to re-download - -can i make a disk of service pack files and updates - - where do i find these files??? i know they are somewhere in the windows folder but don't know where...
sorry--didn't mean to seem testy...this is an awesome forum which i've used mostly for software related stuff...but appreciate having a resource for troubleshooting such as this...
i still don't get the part u referred to here...
"when at 48bitLBA.com, he didn't punch in his IDE onboard...
However, i "think" ibdunn may have overlooked two things possibly;
-- when at 48bitLBA.com, he didn't punch in his IDE onboard controller, thinking it isn't used in his situation(USB interface,....the usb interface sees removeable drives as scsi devices, and the IDE controller is utilized to...
fooled around w/partition magic long enough to get it to give me anpther harddrive--so hopefully my problems are solved---thanks everyone...still would love to figure out how to get the final 250--but will be satisfied at at least being able to use the whole thing!!
i had forgotten to reboot - -i did that--still the same.
as far as partition magic it shows the size to be 131,069.3 and then unallocated to be 107,403.3
how can i change that unallocated portion into something useable??
i would prefer to have one external 250gb drive but short of that i...
i tried again - -there was an install option -- i installed it and tried to see the external 250 and still it only shows as 127gb.....i have partition magic - -it only sees it that way too -- is there any other options anyone?? deperate--- i thank you guys for all your help so far...
ok...sorry if i seem dumb here - -i did copy and paste everything from above as suggested and saved it as a text file...i then found it in my documents and right-clicked on it as suggested - -but "install" was not an option -what do u mean by install from right clicking??
What Brand/Model of new HDD???
western digital -- wd2500jb
and the Brand/model IDE Case - USB Adapter???
the case is a micro-plus (mp-320U2)
there is a caution inside the case that says
"this external sub-system can operate with master ide drive only. Please set the ide drive to master mode...
from that article u suggest,
http://www.adrc.net/articles/137gb.htm
it says: "Use Ultra ATA/133 MHz PCI controller card for Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98 Second Edition, and NT4 " what is meant by that??
also, the article says the below
"The Intel Application Accelerator v2.3 or above support...
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