Hard Disk Drivers

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struby

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I put a kind of old hard drive, a second one that is, into my kind of old computer, and I don't have drivers for it, where would I get them, I think it is a Maxtor and I don't know much about this stuff.
 
You don't need to get drivers for a secondary Hard Drive. It should auto-detect it (in my old computer the bios liked doing the 'I've found a new device let's reboot several times to celebrate' dance). Just set the jumpers so that it's a slave device to your primary (original) drive, or you can set it to cable select and put it onto the IDE connecter (assuming it's not SATA) that says "slave".
 
Thanks for the reply, but since nothing else has worked for me so far, I want to try putting in drivers, I think i need IDEATA.HAM and/or IDEHD.CDM.
edit: Does anyone know where I can download these?
 
Look at the hard drive, it should say a brand name on it, then go to that mfg's website, and see if you can download a driver.

If there is no brand name or no label, go to device manager under system properties and see if it sees anything.
 
how do I get my computer to stop this ms dos compatability it started and how do I get it to use the second hard disk that it seems to half recognize?
 
Harddrives generally dont have drivers and just have to interface with the harddrive controller (for which you do need drivers, well they usually come with the OS anyways). What OS do you have?
 
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