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?


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Moose067

Installing an IDE Hard Drive in a Acer Aspire M5620
 

Help please


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Installing an IDE Hard Drive in a Acer Aspire M5620
 

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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
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Your right what are the questions?

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Moose067 wrote:


Your right what are the questions?

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...3150c948f6a97f


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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.

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"Moose067" wrote in message

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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?

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Moose067

Installing an IDE Hard Drive in a Acer Aspire M5620
 

And in disk manager? Has a volume been created?

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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

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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.

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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

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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?

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Moose067

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
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