Right i have two hard drive (Same make both compatable with the computer). I put the slave cable into my motherboard and plug both hard drives into the slave cable and put the power cable into the hard drives(thier internal hard drives).
The hard drive work on thier own but when i plug both hard drives in at the same time it wont work so what should i do?(I have the windows xp cd)when i try to format one hard drive( have tried with both hard drives)
it says "windows can not format this hard drive. Quit any disk utilites and prgrams that are using the drive............
Have tried this many times but this always happens so what should i do?
2007-03-20 05:30:54 · 6 answers · asked by a7rtw 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
First of all, you cant format a drive thats in use! As for your hard drive problems, It sounds like you dont have the drive jumpers set correctly. One needs to be set to master and plugged into the master connector and one needs to be set to slave.
2007-03-20 05:38:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need to set the jumpers for the drives, one as master and the other as slave.
2007-03-20 05:37:04 · answer #2 · answered by champer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what you describe it sounds greater like a hardware subject than an outbreak. One lengthy beep might desire to factor in the direction of a motherboard project. once you stated the show screen staying black each and every each and every now and then once you swap the device on additionally makes me lean in the direction of hardware failure. you ought to probably touch eMachines and tell them what's occurring. in case you in elementary terms have been given the laptop for Christmas you ought to nonetheless have the skill to have them restore it under guarantee. sturdy success!
2016-10-19 04:15:19 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take the drive out of the system
and take a magnet to it
easy wipe and then put the drive back in and reinstall the OS
2007-03-20 05:36:51 · answer #4 · answered by cherokee.diamond 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make sure the [:] jumper for one is set to master and one to slave this should fix it.
2007-03-20 05:35:09 · answer #5 · answered by ulayhere 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
format the harddrive separately
2007-03-20 05:35:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋