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BlueScreen
12-11-2002, 01:30 AM
Hi Everyone.

Hoping someone here has done this before and can help me out. I have an IDE hard drive that was used in a FireWire case hooked up to my PC. The drive worked fine, but I recently decided to remove it from its FW case and install it inside the PC case as an additional audio drive for GigaStudio.

I connected the power and data cables and started up. I can see it in the Device Manager list. It is properly identified as an IBM DTLA drive, but I do not see it appear as a drive in the \"My Computer\" window. There is data on the drive, so I don\'t want to reformat it unless really necessary.

What is strange is that if I check off the box under its \"Device Manager-->Settings\" window that says \"Removeable\", then it shows up as a removeable drive after I restart. The problem is that I want to make it \"non-removeable\" by installing it as another IDE drive!

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help. I am running Windows98 SE. The drive was working fine as an external FW drive formatted with FAT32.

BlueScreen
12-11-2002, 04:15 AM
Never mind. I figured it out. I finally just wiped it out with FDISK and reformatted the drive and voila! It showed up in the \"My Computer\" window right away.

Thanks.