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So the 80 GB harddrive came in "HELP"
2004-04-20, 10:12 AM #1
It works fine and windows detects it but the drive doesnt show up in My Computer! So how do I lable my drive and get it to show up?

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Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!
Think while it's still legal.
2004-04-20, 10:16 AM #2
Is this the drive you're booting from, or a slave? From what you've said, I would guess it's a slave...

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2004-04-20, 10:20 AM #3
Slave. Am I supposed to make a primary partition of the drive?

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I’m not going to die, I’m going to see if I was ever alive. - Spike
It's not your right to decide whether they live or die. They deserve a chance! - Vash
Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!

[This message has been edited by SAJN_Master (edited April 20, 2004).]
Think while it's still legal.
2004-04-20, 10:27 AM #4
Omgz liek nevermind kthx bai FIXED.

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I’m not going to die, I’m going to see if I was ever alive. - Spike
It's not your right to decide whether they live or die. They deserve a chance! - Vash
Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!
Think while it's still legal.
2004-04-20, 10:31 AM #5
wheee!

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Do you have stairs in your house?
Do you have stairs in your house?
2004-04-20, 10:33 AM #6
fdisk and format I assume [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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2004-04-20, 10:56 AM #7
Don't even need to use fdisk. Just use the Windows partioner in Administative Tools>Computer Management>Storage>Disk Management

It's pretty self explanatory there. Just right click on the drive and make a partition.
2004-04-20, 12:15 PM #8
SAJN_Master, always use primary partitions if you can. You may only have up to 4 partitions per hard drive.

A logical partition is simply a primary partition with one or more so called 'logical' partitins inside of it, thus overcoming the 4 partition limit.

So yeah, just use fdisk /dev/hdb or whatever and partition away. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif] If you're on windows, use the disk managment tool under administration.

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2004-04-20, 12:20 PM #9
It's all set now. It's one solid 80 GB..well windows WHORES 5 gig of it. I dunno why. But it says like 75.43 Gig or something like that.

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I’m not going to die, I’m going to see if I was ever alive. - Spike
It's not your right to decide whether they live or die. They deserve a chance! - Vash
Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!
Think while it's still legal.
2004-04-20, 12:25 PM #10
No, that has nothing to do with Windows. It is simply the way the vendors list the drive capacity. The reason is because 2 ** 10, or 10-bit is equal to 1024, not 1000. This throws the number off, letting the package "lie" about it's capacity.

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