re: Slave not seen in My Computer Friday, December 12, 2003 at 4:59 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by suruli (5 messages posted) The 40g came off my 1.2g amd and my Asus board, so it's not old. It's also not proprietary. This is the first computer we've 'owned' that we haven't built. So neither board is ancient and incapable of handling large disks on their own. We also didn't install ezbios on the WD (40g) so that's not there to cause problems. Even the 60g seagate that we think came out of the HP, won't recognize as a slave. What's even worse, though we can get to the dos prompt with a startup disk, we can't, at that point, see the disks to fdisk them. On Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 2:02 pm, Steve B wrote: >Old BIOSs can't handle big disks directly. In order for big disks to be used in >such a computer, the disk manufacturer includes a CD with software that somehow allows >the BIOS to handle the disk. At least I think so. > >I'm thinking if the 40 GB disk was formatted on such a computer, it probably won't >be readable on the new computer. If this is the problem, I don't know what the solution >is. > > Written in response to: re: Slave not seen in My Computer (Steve B: Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 2:02 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Slave not seen in My Computer (suruli: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 6:45 am) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (triplate: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 6:58 am) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (suruli: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 7:07 am) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (Steve B: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 7:09 am) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (suruli: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 7:16 am) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (tom: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 10:49 am) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (suruli: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 11:29 am) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (Steve B: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 2:02 pm) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (suruli: Fri, Dec 12, 2003, 4:59 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum