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mike
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 Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 5:11 am Post subject: Hard Drive Comaptibility Gateway vs non-Gateway???? |
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I'm trying to help my neighbor fix his Gateway P500 desktop.
I pulled the 20Gig hard drive out of his Gateway machine and put it
into my non-gateway machine (three different ones).
The bios recognizes the drive, but it's nowhere to be found in
Win98 or DOS.
Ok, so I took a new drive, formatted in my machine, put it
in the gateway, reloaded win98se then restored his backup.
It seems to be working, so I pulled it out and stuck it
back into my non-gateway machine to image the drive.
The BIOS recognizes it, but it's nowhere to be found in DOS
or win98SE.
I've done this successfully hundreds of times with non-gateway machines.
What the heck is going on here and how do I get the drive to work
in both the Gateway and my non-gateway machine???
Thanks, mike
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Tweek
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 6:03 am Post subject: Re: Hard Drive Comaptibility Gateway vs non-Gateway???? |
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What does Fdisk say? if it says there is a non-dos partition, it probably
has goback on it and needs to be disabled.
"mike" <spamme0@juno.com> wrote in message news:3FE8CBA2.8090608@juno.com...
| Quote: | I'm trying to help my neighbor fix his Gateway P500 desktop.
I pulled the 20Gig hard drive out of his Gateway machine and put it
into my non-gateway machine (three different ones).
The bios recognizes the drive, but it's nowhere to be found in
Win98 or DOS.
Ok, so I took a new drive, formatted in my machine, put it
in the gateway, reloaded win98se then restored his backup.
It seems to be working, so I pulled it out and stuck it
back into my non-gateway machine to image the drive.
The BIOS recognizes it, but it's nowhere to be found in DOS
or win98SE.
I've done this successfully hundreds of times with non-gateway machines.
What the heck is going on here and how do I get the drive to work
in both the Gateway and my non-gateway machine???
Thanks, mike
--
Return address is VALID.
Bunch of stuff For Sale and Wanted at the link below.
Toshiba & Compaq LiIon Batteries, Test Equipment
Honda CB-125S $800 in PDX
TEK Sampling Sweep Plugin and RM564
Tek 2465 $800, ham radio, 30pS pulser
Tektronix Concept Books, spot welding head...
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/4710/
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mike
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| Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2003 10:46 am Post subject: Re: Hard Drive Comaptibility Gateway vs non-Gateway???? |
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Tweek wrote:
| Quote: | What does Fdisk say? if it says there is a non-dos partition, it probably
has goback on it and needs to be disabled.
Thanks, it does. I'll try it disabled. |
mike
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TEK Sampling Sweep Plugin and RM564
Tek 2465 $800, ham radio, 30pS pulser
Tektronix Concept Books, spot welding head...
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