I have a hard drive (3.5" IDE) which has plagued me since I installed it. It's always been incredibly slow. Transferring files around it and to/from it take a very long time. I was told I might be able to speed it up by changing the jumper shunt position. So I did it. I changed the shunt to every possible position and started up the PC again. The only one that works is the CS Enabled one. Fair enough, I can't speed it up. But now there's something else. When I reconnect it with CS Enabled, the hard drive is being detected as new and unformatted. I can't use it unless I format it but I have a lot of important files on it that I really don't want to lose. Does anyone know what's wrong. Help would be greatly appreciated.
By the way, the hard drive is a Maxtor DiamondMax with 160gb.
2007-03-08
05:52:28
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Graham T
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I don't think it's the primary drive. My PC came with a hard drive, and I bought this one separately.
2007-03-08
06:23:26 ·
update #1