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>hELLO
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>When Dell installed the new drive or replaced it, did
>they relaod windows on the new drive for you,
Yes, the new drive had windows preinstalled. The local
tech put the drive in place and rebooted the machine. It
then took a while (maybe 30 min or so) for the machine to
be available.
also
>is the new drive working, you said that you added a
second drive
I puchased a new drive over the web that was identical to
the original one that failed and to the new one supplied
by Dell and installed by the local tech. The only thing
the new drive I puchased does is consume power and
disipate heat. It was listed as an OEM item and came with
nothing but the drive. Luckily the PCI RAID card I
purchased at the same time came with two serial cables
which allowed me to do a lot of swapping and testing. As
I noted before, even the original faild drive had enough
functionality that I was able to run it along with the
new Dell supplied drive and recover some data.
>so at this point, your having an issue with drive2 and
not
>drive 1 is this correct
Yes, drive 1 is working well. Even the RAID card
eventually installed.
>al
Thanks Al
>Bob wrote:
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>> I purchased a Dell 8300 r(P4 w/ Win XP Pro, NTFS)
recently
>> with a single SEAGATE ST3120026AS 120GB SERIAL ATA
HD
>> 7200 RPM 8.5MS 3.5LP BARRACUDA 7200.7 SATA. After a
>> sudden HD failure Dell replaced the original HD. I
>> decided to purchase another identical Seagate HD and
PCI
>> RAID controller for a RAID 1 setup. I hooked up the old
>> failed HD to the second SATA port on the mother board
and
>> was able to recover all of the data that had not been
>> backed up. Theis proved that the second serial cable,
>> power cable, and the port on the MB were functioning
(the
>> old hard drive still had issues but I had my data and
>> didn't care). I then installed the new drive. My
computer
>> refuses to recognize the drive (not seen by "My
computer
>> or by disk management). I've tried a variety of
settings
>> in SETUP (I'm no expert). Normally I would expect this
to
>> be a simple plug and play plus at most a disk
formatting
>> step. Along the way I've tried lots of cable and MB
port
>> swithing and swapping. I even tried installing the RAID
>> controller and using both the old original drive and
the
>> new drive as the mirror drive. It seemed to work with
the
>> old original but not the new. The error message I get
>> back is that the disk is not initialized. I am not
given
>> the option to perform an initialization step (I'm not
>> familiar with the term "initialize"). Sorry about the
>> length of this post (I'm new to this) but after reading
>> back through six weeks of posts, it seems that a lack
of
>> info results in vague answers.
>>
>> Tahnks in advance,
>> Bob
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