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Old August 16th 03, 05:28 PM
Jean
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In article , (the yeti) wrote:
There is nothing special about a Compaq Hard Drive. It's the same as
any other hard drive. Plug it in on the IDE cable at the connector
point closest to the motherboard. Jumper it as slave. Plug in your
other Hard drive on the top of the IDE cable jumper it as Master.
Reboot and go. If that dosn't work then jumper both HD's as cable
select. There is only 6 possible combinations, it dosn't take that
long to figure out if you have the right jumper settings for each HD.
If it dosn't work then the Hard Drive is probally toast. Put it in a
plastic bag in the freezer for 2 hours and then hook it up, sometimes
that works.

Or try Knoppix to access the hard Drive.


The problem is not with jumpering the drive. Like I said earlier BIOS and Disk
Management knows that the physical drive is there. Its just not recognizing
its partition(s).

thanks anyways.