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Installing an IDE Hard Drive in a Acer Aspire M5620
I just purchased an Acer AM5620-E5512A It is Quad Core Intel I am trying to install an extra hard drive an IDE 320GB Western Digital HD. I am running Vista 64-bit the computer is recognizing the drive as a floppy drive how can i fix this? -- Moose067 |
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Installing an IDE Hard Drive in a Acer Aspire M5620
Answer the questions that were asked, no one can help if you just keep
asking for help and don't reply to the questions. -- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "Moose067" wrote in message ... Help please -- Moose067 |
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Installing an IDE Hard Drive in a Acer Aspire M5620
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:06:08 -0500, "David B." wrote:
Answer the questions that were asked, no one can help if you just keep asking for help and don't reply to the questions. Is using one of those vBulletin Usenet gateways and is obviously not getting the replies. DDW -- Reply via this group No email please |
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Installing an IDE Hard Drive in a Acer Aspire M5620
Your right what are the questions? DDW;956882 Wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:06:08 -0500, "David B." mail@xxxxxx wrote: Answer the questions that were asked, no one can help if you just keep asking for help and don't reply to the questions. Is using one of those vBulletin Usenet gateways and is obviously not getting the replies. DDW -- Reply via this group No email please -- Moose067 |
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Installing an IDE Hard Drive in a Acer Aspire M5620
Moose067 wrote:
Your right what are the questions? http://groups.google.com/group/micro...3150c948f6a97f DDW;956882 Wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:06:08 -0500, "David B." mail@xxxxxx wrote: Answer the questions that were asked, no one can help if you just keep asking for help and don't reply to the questions. Is using one of those vBulletin Usenet gateways and is obviously not getting the replies. DDW -- Reply via this group No email please |
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Installing an IDE Hard Drive in a Acer Aspire M5620
On Feb 1, 6:15*pm, "Rick Rogers" wrote:
Hi, How is it seen in the system BIOS? It is seen as 320gb floppy. under the CMOS set up Are you certain you did not connect it to a FDD controller cable input? There is only one IDE input on the motherboard. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVPhttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help -www.rickrogers.org My thoughtshttp://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "Moose067" wrote in message ... I just purchased an Acer AM5620-E5512A It is Quad Core Intel I am trying to install an extra hard drive an IDE 320GB Western Digital HD. I am running Vista 64-bit the computer is recognizing the drive as a floppy drive how can i fix this? -- Moose067 |
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Installing an IDE Hard Drive in a Acer Aspire M5620
And in disk manager? Has a volume been created?
-- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com wrote in message ... On Feb 1, 6:15 pm, "Rick Rogers" wrote: Hi, How is it seen in the system BIOS? It is seen as 320gb floppy. under the CMOS set up Are you certain you did not connect it to a FDD controller cable input? There is only one IDE input on the motherboard. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVPhttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help -www.rickrogers.org My thoughtshttp://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "Moose067" wrote in message ... I just purchased an Acer AM5620-E5512A It is Quad Core Intel I am trying to install an extra hard drive an IDE 320GB Western Digital HD. I am running Vista 64-bit the computer is recognizing the drive as a floppy drive how can i fix this? -- Moose067 |
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Installing an IDE Hard Drive in a Acer Aspire M5620
I took the easy way out and just purchased an IDE to SATA Adapter. Thanks for the help. Moose067;955936 Wrote: I just purchased an Acer AM5620-E5512A It is Quad Core Intel I am trying to install an extra hard drive an IDE 320GB Western Digital HD. I am running Vista 64-bit the computer is recognizing the drive as a floppy drive how can i fix this? Moose067;956294 Wrote: Help please Moose067;956901 Wrote: Your right what are the questions? DDW;956882 Wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:06:08 -0500, "David B." mail@xxxxxx wrote: Answer the questions that were asked, no one can help if you just keep asking for help and don't reply to the questions. Is using one of those vBulletin Usenet gateways and is obviously not getting the replies. DDW -- Reply via this group No email please -- Moose067 |