Hi,
I was trying to upgrad e a friends PC RAM last night and ran into the following problem.
The PC has 3 SDRAM slots, one of which was used by a 128 MB chip.
I then installed a 512 MB chip in the next slot, and when I booted up the PC it only detected 512MB.
I then checked the BIOS and noticed...
Hi gargouille,
Ok, I did exactly as you said.
fdisk /status shows my 2nd HDD and I ran the manufacturers diagnostic tool and that shows that the drive is OK (pfffeeww).
So, I am guessing that scandisk never did repair my FAT correctly and they're lost and my drive looks like its unformatted...
I don't think I have SMART on my MainBoard since it is a pretty old one (I will actually check for it again).
As for accessing it from DOS, that doesn't work either (doing a d: on the command promt simply resolves in a 'Invalid drive specification')
So, that rules out running fdisk on that drive...
Hi gargouille,
The most info I have right now is :
When I boot up, there's is no d: drive. The only way that I know that my second drive is actually connected is to check the BIOS settings (when i set the primary slave to AUTO and reboot, the BIOS detects it and gets the right info for it...
Hi all,
I currently have 2 HDD on my computer. A small crash forced me to reboot without shutting windows down. On the re-boot, I ran scan disk on both my c: and d: drives.
When windows restarted (windows 98) I tried accessing my d: drive and I got the error message 'disk not formatted' or...
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