ME won't detect my hard drive

[Rossen]

Hi,

I am trying to install a 120Gb Seagate hard drive and ME
won't see it, but in the bios I can see it! How do I sole
this!

[Noel Paton]

Boot to DOS using your Startup disk and FDISK and Partition the drive from
there

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"Rossen" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install a 120Gb Seagate hard drive and ME
> won't see it, but in the bios I can see it! How do I sole
> this!

[Richard G. Harper]

Has the drive been prepared for storing data, either by using the CD/floppy
disk that came with it or by using FDISK and FORMAT?

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"Rossen" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install a 120Gb Seagate hard drive and ME
> won't see it, but in the bios I can see it! How do I sole
> this!

[bkoniers]

I'm having a similar problem, although my hard drive was
already installed and working, until windows me crashed
and had to be reinstalled. Now i can see it in the bios,
but not in windows. I don't want to format the drive,
because it already contains data. Any thoughts??
>-----Original Message-----
>Has the drive been prepared for storing data, either by
using the CD/floppy
>disk that came with it or by using FDISK and FORMAT?
>
>--
>Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x]
>* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
>* for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not
replied to.
>* HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
>
>"Rossen" > wrote in message
...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to install a 120Gb Seagate hard drive and ME
>> won't see it, but in the bios I can see it! How do I
sole
>> this!
>
>
>.
>

[Noel Paton]

Reboot to Safe Mode
Open Device Manager
Remove ALL error-flagged devices
Remove the IDE Master Controller(s)
Remove ALL entries in the 'Other Devices' branch - if present
Remove ALL instances of duplicated devices
Reboot to normal Mode - Windows will reinstall required drivers (may take a
couple of reboots, depending on how much you took out), and hopefully cure
your problem

Have you been playing with TweakUI?

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

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"bkoniers" > wrote in message
...
> I'm having a similar problem, although my hard drive was
> already installed and working, until windows me crashed
> and had to be reinstalled. Now i can see it in the bios,
> but not in windows. I don't want to format the drive,
> because it already contains data. Any thoughts??
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Has the drive been prepared for storing data, either by
> using the CD/floppy
> >disk that came with it or by using FDISK and FORMAT?
> >
> >--
> >Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x]
> >* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
> >* for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not
> replied to.
> >* HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> >
> >
> >"Rossen" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am trying to install a 120Gb Seagate hard drive and ME
> >> won't see it, but in the bios I can see it! How do I
> sole
> >> this!
> >
> >
> >.
> >

[Alex]

I've got that problem too with two 80 G disks. If you
browse a bit you'll find that winme does not support big
disks and that you'll have to patch something somewhere.
I've read something about a FDISK64 instead of fdisk.I
don't have too much time to spend on that. Take this as a
hint.

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm having a similar problem, although my hard drive was
>already installed and working, until windows me crashed
>and had to be reinstalled. Now i can see it in the bios,
>but not in windows. I don't want to format the drive,
>because it already contains data. Any thoughts??
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Has the drive been prepared for storing data, either by
>using the CD/floppy
>>disk that came with it or by using FDISK and FORMAT?
>>
>>--
>>Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x]
>>* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
>>* for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not
>replied to.
>>* HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>>
>>
>>"Rossen" > wrote in message
...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to install a 120Gb Seagate hard drive and
ME
>>> won't see it, but in the bios I can see it! How do I
>sole
>>> this!
>>
>>
>>.
>>
>.
>

[Mike M]

Win Me has no problem whatsoever with 80GB hard disks, you may be thinking of
Win 98SE or earlier. On the other hand many older motherboards have problems
with larger disks. Win Me can handle disks to around 137GB. You are correct
though in part, it is essential that the user use Win Me's fdisk to partition
their disk and not that from Win 98SE or earlier.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Alex > wrote:

> I've got that problem too with two 80 G disks. If you
> browse a bit you'll find that winme does not support big
> disks and that you'll have to patch something somewhere.
> I've read something about a FDISK64 instead of fdisk.I
> don't have too much time to spend on that. Take this as a
> hint.