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Fixed hard-drive showing as removable

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theomen

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Jun 2, 2004
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My brother has a hard-drive problem that I've not seen before, just wondering whether anyone can help.

I haven't got much info to hand, but I know its an 80gb HDD in an AMD Duron box.

He's just bought it today, but when he gets into Windows, it's showing it up as a removable disk, and when he tries to access it he's told to insert a disk.

Any ideas what the problem may be? I thought at first that maybe the computer wasn't good enough for an 80gb disk, but then he said it was an AMD Duron which should be able to cope.

He's just unplugged one HDD and replaced it with this one. He has it set as slave at the moment until he's copied everything over from his other hard drive.

Thanks in advance.
 
The new drive needs to be partitioned and formated before it can be used by windows.
 
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