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| Joystick Jerk:
--- Quote from: loadman on June 21, 2007, 07:34:18 am ---Yeah.. If its a brand new drive you need to mount/activate it in computer management or it won't show up in 'My computer' --- End quote --- Since when? Any properly functioning computer running XP will automatically recognize a new drive and mount it. |
| loadman:
--- Quote from: Joystick Jerk on June 22, 2007, 06:49:29 am --- --- Quote from: loadman on June 21, 2007, 07:34:18 am ---Yeah.. If its a brand new drive you need to mount/activate it in computer management or it won't show up in 'My computer' --- End quote --- Since when? Any properly functioning computer running XP will automatically recognize a new drive and mount it. --- End quote --- Nothing to do with the computer. ::) You obviously just have not been in the situation. Some new drives are pre-initilised for MS Windows and some aren't. Same effect is achieved if you put your drive in after it has been used on another operating system like UNIX. I think that windows auto mounts if it is the first drive but you may have to do it yourself on some drives if you put in additional |
| headkaze:
--- Quote from: loadman on June 22, 2007, 07:40:07 am --- --- Quote from: Joystick Jerk on June 22, 2007, 06:49:29 am --- --- Quote from: loadman on June 21, 2007, 07:34:18 am ---Yeah.. If its a brand new drive you need to mount/activate it in computer management or it won't show up in 'My computer' --- End quote --- Since when? Any properly functioning computer running XP will automatically recognize a new drive and mount it. --- End quote --- Nothing to do with the computer. ::) You obviously just have not been in the situation. Some new drives are pre-initilised for MS Windows and some aren't. Same effect is achieved if you put your drive in after it has been used on another operating system like UNIX. I think that windows auto mounts if it is the first drive but you may have to do it yourself on some drives if you put in additional --- End quote --- I know what your saying loadman it's happened to me a few times when one of my drives would disconnect (I think because of a lose cable) I would play with the plug and it would show up again but I would have to manually enable it in Disk Management for it to show up in My Computer. |
| Joystick Jerk:
--- Quote from: loadman on June 22, 2007, 07:40:07 am ---I think that windows auto mounts if it is the first drive but you may have to do it yourself on some drives if you put in additional --- End quote --- Nope. |
| SNAAKE:
well..everything is working but I am curious about the difference between "basic" and "dynamic" disk type. I had a problem before(thread here) and my spare drives werent showing then I had to rewrite the partition again and they worked again. now I cleaned up my spare drive and trying to figure out how I should format it. |
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