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hard drive not recognised

kingofbeers · 2009-02-13 20:28:41

Hi guys, I installed a ide hard drive on my pc and the cables and power supply are fine. its not in my computer.when i go into device manager it shows up under disk drives but has at @ symbol name to it. but when i go to disk management its not there. any ideas how to get it recognised. any help much appreciated.

13-02-2009 8:28pm

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kingofbeers

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Hi guys,
I installed a ide hard drive on my pc and the cables and power supply are fine. its not in my computer.when i go into device manager it shows up under disk drives but has at @ symbol name to it. but when i go to disk management its not there. any ideas how to get it recognised. any help much appreciated.

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#2 13-02-2009 9:34pm

Maximus_Laggus

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Bit of info on your O/S and system spec would be helpful. Did you buy the HDD new? did it come with a disk. Or, is the HDD a old one you had lying around?

It could be a simple matter of setting the drive jumpers to slave. Also, is the drive recognised in the bios?

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