120 gig hd help
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Topic: 120 gig hd help
Posted By: merc
Subject: 120 gig hd help
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:01pm
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i just picked up a new 120 gig hd at best buy for 20$ (gift cards and rebates) its a seagate ultra ata 100
im installing it on a dell dimension 4100 with a p3 its running around 850 mhz i think but i cant remember where to find it 256mb ram it is installed and it says its running fine but i cant get the icon to show up in "my computer" i pulled the little thingy off to make it a slave to my 18 gig hd im leaving the os on the 18 gig and just stickin my stuff on the 120 so when i get a new comp this winter i can stick my 120 in that... it dosent reconize the extra space i dont think nore dose it show the icon...i need to know how to stick the icon in "my computer" thanx ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
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Posted By: SandMan
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:02pm
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Have you created a partition on the drive or formatted it? ------------- Real Men Love Cheeses |
Posted By: tippy_182
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:02pm
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Prepare for the you have a dell, you suck flames.
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Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:04pm
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lol the dell wasent my choice flame the step dad
the format thingy was gray so i couldent click it and it says 110 gigs free about so im guessing a chunks sectioned off... i realy dono what im doing... i pluged it in all by my self though... ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:06pm
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merc wrote:Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:07pm
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"partitioned" what is that and why is it needed? it came with a cd but every time it starts 2 run it kicks the disk out and closes ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: SandMan
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:10pm
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There's a utility called FDisk built into DOS/Windows that you can use to create and delete partitions on new drives. But it's dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.
This is why I don't recommend newbies try to build their own PC's... Anyway, what you really need to do is get someone who knows what they're doing to help you on site. ------------- Real Men Love Cheeses |
Posted By: youm0nt
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:10pm
| did u make the 18gb set to master drive?but i think itd be master in the first place. |
Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:12pm
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i figuered i wouldent have to do anything to it. the plug should be set as master or to let the comp pick and i pulled the bracket off the 120 so it would be set to slave...
the stock 18 gig is so deep in there i dident wanna pull it out... ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: AdmiralSenn
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:12pm
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Partitioning is a way of organizing drives. For example, when I installed Linux I had to divide my hard drive into several partitions. Some were for the Windows filesystem and the rest were for the Linux filesystem.
It's possible that partitionmagic will allow you to format the drive in a usable way, as well as allowing it to show up as a usable drive. May or may not work. Try it anyway. ------------- Is God real? You'll find out when you die. 
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Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:13pm
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i dont want an os on it though i just want to use it as a big shoe box for all my games and school work ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: SandMan
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:16pm
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Oh yeah... You know what? You prolly also have to switch the jumpers on the master. It's probably set to "Cable Select", which doesn't work very well on most IDE buses.
Is better if you force it to Master. But you still need someone who knows what they're doing to FDisk and format the new drive. ------------- Real Men Love Cheeses |
Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:19pm
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Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:22pm
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i dont have anyone that knows what there doing...they wanted 50$ to do it at best buy and for a drive thats only cost me 20 it seems silly... can i do all this stuff without messing with the 18 gig? like it wont reformat the 18 gig hard drive?
bla k im gunna dig out the 18 and swich it i guess i need to shut down the comp for a while so im gunna stay on for a few more mins 2 check any posts before i go stickin screw drivers into the comp ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: Random_Person
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:25pm
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i don't have any clue about that, so i will say this... Good Luck. ------------- http://profile.xfire.com/kentuckyfriedgangsta"> 
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Posted By: SandMan
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:26pm
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You might try the Partition Magic thing... I've always done it by hand. But you're playing with fire here. Screwing up would be bad, bad ju-ju.
I have a general rule... Never try to walk someone through something they should never be doing themselves. ------------- Real Men Love Cheeses |
Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:28pm
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lol im good with my hands and im not totaly retarded with computers its just something new... im gunna go dig and it and rock it as master il be back in a while cross your fingers
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Posted By: SandMan
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 3:36pm
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Yeah, well, "retarded" has little to do with it. What you need is experience to know what you're doing.
I'm not big on theoretical intelligence, only practical application. ------------- Real Men Love Cheeses |
Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 4:16pm
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mom came home a few hours ago from having neck surgery so im keeping an eye on her but i finaly got done pluging it all back in
k well i pluged it all back in and swiched the cords so its a newer cord pluging it into the mother board ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 4:43pm
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allright after i got it all pluged in the tech dude had me set up in like 2 mins so im all set thanx for the help though ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: SandMan
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 4:45pm
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The "tech dude"?
Yeah, it's not hard if you know what you're doing. ------------- Real Men Love Cheeses |
Posted By: PlentifulBalls
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 5:07pm
I'm kinda of a n00b g33k, I spose. I am currently building my own 'pooter, and so far have the case. On this PC I put in an extra HD, only 4 gigs, but I needed the space. It was pretty easy, made it a slave, plugged it in, and formatted it. Walla. New drive. But that was IDE, I don't know much about ata. ------------- 
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Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 6:18pm
| What OS Merc? |
Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 6:28pm
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xp...
anyone know how i can put a pw on the drive so no one can access it... i opened up a ton of space on the old hd and people in this house like to junk stuff thats not theres...ive had to reinstall steam (video game platform) like 8 times ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 6:34pm
| Merc, Skip FDisk. On the desktop, right-click MY COMPUTER. Click to MANAGE. Click on DISK MANAGEMENT. Here you will be able to format the drive, create partitions, etc. |
Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 6:40pm
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thank you shub but i ended up giving in and called tech support and they helped me do it...thats exacatly what he had me do...
they spelt center wrong...look where u post a message and the button that you click to center your text.. ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |