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re: Secondary drive won't show?
Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 9:10 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by ApprenticeDave
(45 messages posted)
Wow! Thanks for the info. Very much appreciated!
On Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 8:49 am, appleoddity wrote:
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>With the drive hooked up to the test PC, look to see if it is recognized in the
BIOS.
> Or alternatively, use your USB adapter, then go into computer management (right-click
>my computer, click manage) and expand "storage" then select disk management. See
>if you are able to "see" the device listed.
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>If the computer is recognizing the device but you can not get a drive letter, or
>do not see a valid partition on the drive, then you probably have a case where the
>original PC uses a non-standard drive geometry in the BIOS.
>
>It is rare, and is usually a problem on much older PCs. In order to get your operating
>system to recognize the drive properly, you will have to go into the BIOS settings
>on the original PC, and record the actual settings (heads, cylinders, sectors, LBA
>mode, etc.) and then manually set those same settings in your BIOS so that the geometry
>is identical.
>
>Then the partition will be recognize properly and you will get a drive letter.
I
>must warn you that if you try to do anything on the drive with the improper drive
>geometry set, you will destroy data.
>
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