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Hairy_Lee · 12-06-2005, 04:12 PM

is it a brand new drive, if so have you formatted it?
you could also try swapping the hard drive cables. also make sure that the hard drive has been detected by going into the bios and select detect drive

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Hairy_Lee VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Plymouth, UK Age: 25 Posts: 2,553	is it a brand new drive, if so have you formatted it? you could also try swapping the hard drive cables. also make sure that the hard drive has been detected by going into the bios and select detect drive __________________ Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 EVGA nForce 650i Ultra mainboard EVGA 7950 GT KO SC 512Mb w/ Zalman VF-900Cu 2Gb of OCZ GOLD XTC SPECIAL OPS Eition Notebook - Acer Aspire 9300 - Turion TL-60/ 2 Gb RAM/ Geforce Go 7600 128 Dedicated (400 Mb turbocache)