I am trying to add an 80gig hard drive to my system. It needs to be partitioned and formatted. W2000 recognizes the drive is present but will not format nor partition it. Is there any way to get W2000 to assign a drive number to it?? I have tried using LBA on and LBA off and neither works. LBA = Logical Block Addressing, which I understand is used for larger drives.

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Clint
Download windows ME boot disk from bootdisk.com
run the file after you have it downloaded it will make a boot disk for you.
Then unhook the master drive in your machine and put the new 80gig in as MASTER
Run your  BIOS setup to see the new hook up
Then boot with the ME boot disk and run FDISK and then Format the new drive.
When it done with format power down and put the old HD in as master and the new HD 
as slave and then run the BIOS setup to see the new setup.
then reboot and it should startup with new 80gig HD in place.
NOTE***the ME boot disk will see HD's over 32gig and let you format them right. ( 
with Full cap.)(use the full 80gig size)







On Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 1:43 pm, Clint Heintzelman wrote:

>I am trying to add an 80gig hard drive to my system.  It needs to be partitioned 

>and formatted.  W2000 recognizes the drive is present but will not format nor partition 

>it.  Is there any way to get W2000 to assign a drive number to it??  I have tried 

>using LBA on and LBA off and neither works.  LBA = Logical Block Addressing, which 

>I understand is used for larger drives. 

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I tried the ME boot disk. I went to BIOS and selected "Auto" for primary disk drive select. It sat forever. I changed the setting to "none" and it went through the boot up all the way to A:. I typed in fdisk and it came back with ---- "no hard disk present". As always thanks for you help thus far, Dex.


On Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 2:21 pm, DEX wrote:
>Clint
>Download windows ME boot disk from bootdisk.com
>run the file after you have it downloaded it will make a boot disk for you.
>Then unhook the master drive in your machine and put the new 80gig in as MASTER
>Run your BIOS setup to see the new hook up
>Then boot with the ME boot disk and run FDISK and then Format the new drive.
>When it done with format power down and put the old HD in as master and the new HD
>as slave and then run the BIOS setup to see the new setup.
>then reboot and it should startup with new 80gig HD in place.
>NOTE***the ME boot disk will see HD's over 32gig and let you format them right. (
>with Full cap.)(use the full 80gig size)
>
>
>

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Clint 
Try one more time
Set the new 80gig as master (see the jummpers setting on the HD)
Plug the ribbon cable into the number one slot on the MB and the red line to the 
number one pin on the MB and the HD..
Then reboot in to your BIOS and then run Det.the HD item on the bios list.
It should find it and must b/4 you can use it...
If it finds it your set to save and exit the BIOS setup.
If it Can't find it replace drive..but don't set it for NONE
You can some times use the User Define to set it up, and the setting for it should 
be on the HD also..
But with most of the computers now days should pick it up with out your help.










On Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 7:28 am, Clint Heintzelman wrote:

>I tried the ME boot disk.  I went to BIOS and selected "Auto" for primary disk drive 

>select.  It sat forever.  I changed the setting to "none" and it went through the 

>boot up all the way to A:.  I typed in fdisk and it came back with ---- "no hard 

>disk present".  As always thanks for you help thus far, Dex.

>

>

> 

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