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Hard disk drive problem........

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/hard-disk-drive-problem.29149/

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pushkar1986 Original post #1
May 30, 2006 at 9:19 AM
I got one spare hard disk , when i trie to connect it... it got detected in bios as well as plug & play of windows xp. but no drive is showingin my computer ....what do you think the problem is??
champ_rock
May 30, 2006 at 9:31 AM
maybe u had installed linux sometime, its filesystem is ext3 which is not supported by windows.. therefore the drive will not show..

also, if your drive is new then u should format it first then only it will show up..
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May 30, 2006 at 2:13 PM
is the drive u r reffering to formatted?