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    2'nd hard drive

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by HDforme, Mar 28, 2009.

  1. HDforme

    HDforme Notebook Guru

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    Hi,If this was covered before I'm sorry,I added a WD320 for a second drive on my 7811 but my system doesn't see it,do I need to do anything else? Thank's for any help Bob
     
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    Charr Notebook Deity

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    You need to format it. Go to Control panel -> Administrative tools -> Computer administration -> Disk manager to do it.
     
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    Thank's for the info all works good,my next question is I have the same drive for the main,I copied it with the CMS transfer kit but it won't boot of the new drive,it ask's if you want to start windows in recovery or start windows normaly.If I try to start in recovery it goes back to the same screen and ask's me how I want to start and if I choose to start normaly it goes to blue screen.The original drive works fine???
     
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