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My Excelstor 80GB hard drive has been showing faulty for about 5 years. But no symptoms of impending doom. I suppose I should sling it, but is there anything else I can do?
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To configure the hard drive as a slave drive, you need to set a jumper on the hard drive to SL (slave) The other jumper settings are MA (master) and CS (cable select).
For your specific operating system, assuming that Windows is running, locate Admistrative Tools -> Disk management. You should see Disk 0 or Disk 1 with your Excelstor 80GB drive: if you do not have a partition, create one or more partition, assign drive letter(s) and then format using the context menu. If you do not see the drive in the Disk Management screen, then your Bios has not been setup properly or your drive is not connected properly. Hope it helps.
Most likely the problem is that you have another blank partition. The Microsoft disk management tool can probably solve this.
This is a tutorial on how to use it.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000/
Was this 80GB cloned (copied) from an old 30GB disk?
Open Computer Management window doing this:
Start button - settings - control panel - administrative tools - computer management.
In the window that open, on the left hand side pane, expand Storage and click Disk Management. On the left hand side window, lower pane you should see a list of disks. See Disk 0,Basic <disk size>, Online. Do you see the 80GB as disk size? To the right you would see a series of boxes. Probably you see (C:) 30GB NTFS Healthy (system). Do you see to the right of it a box with 50GB (unknown partition)?
If so, you do have a 80GB disk, but only 30GB is a recognized partition by Windows. You can still use the the unknown partition. Post back here if you need instructions.
Was this 80GB cloned (copied) from an old 30GB disk?
Open Computer Management window doing this:
Start button - settings - control panel - administrative tools - computer management. In the window that open, on the left hand side pane, expand Storage and click Disk Management. On the left hand side window, lower pane you should see a list of disks. See Disk 0,Basic <disk size>, Online. Do you see the 80GB as disk size? To the right you would see a series of boxes. Probably you see (C:) 30GB NTFS Healthy (system). Do you see to the right of it a box with 50GB (unknown partition)?
If so, you do have a 80GB disk, but only 30GB is a recognized partition by Windows. You can still use the the unknown partition. Post back here if you need instructions.
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