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Old February 3rd 09, 01:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Rick Rogers
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Default Installing an IDE Hard Drive in a Acer Aspire M5620

And in disk manager? Has a volume been created?

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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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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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