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need help with stupid puter
About a week ago I went to open some music files I had stored on our secondary hard drive to find that all of a sudden the computer didn't recognise the hard drive, its like it never existed. Any ideas on what the prob is and how to fix it?
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Is it an internal or external hard drive?
Originally Posted by Smidy
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sorry should have mentioned that, its internal
DW I'm a Spray Painter!
check the cable connections?
go into device manager, control panel > system > hardware > device manager
click on disk drives and see if there are 2 HDD there?
VZ SSZ- LS1
Ecotec just kicked in yo
Go into System setup and set it to automatically detect the hard drives, and see if they come up?
Hard drive could be ****ed and would need a reformat.
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Right click on "My Computer" Click "Manage" then on the left hand side you will see something like "Disk management" see if there are 2 HDD's there, if not then you need to check the cables.
Otherwise you could also put it in another computer to see if the HDD is ok.
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holt the bios and see if it has detected it, window's has nothing to do with it.
check for the pin setup for slave, or conflick's with dvd rom drive.
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DW I'm a Spray Painter!
^^^ yeah i was gonna say the bios, but i dont know the extent of julies knowledge of computers lol
VZ SSZ- LS1
Check the BIOS for sure (usually by pressing the DEL key a few times when the system is first turned on), but there won't be any conflicts, as the drive was previously recognised & working fine.
Chances are a cable (be it power or data) has either worked its way loose, or the drive is cactus..
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Can you seriously stop posting bullshit answers telling people to format there hard drives for no ****ing reason. Last resort you would format the hard drive in any situation, especially this one, when its highly unlikely a format will do **** all. Next time you tell someone to format there hard drive when its not needed Im coming to format yours.
Exactly, check if its detected in the BIOS, if its not then you can eliminate all software related problems and its either Hardware or BIOS (unlikely) related.
If it is listed in the BIOS then its software related.... What operating system are you running (xp, Vista etc)?
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