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GoGeTa006:
OK. . . I opened my case and did this and that

I have 2 hard drives connected to this controller card, the PC doesnt detect them (altough I did see them in the BIOS)

I have trough the Motherboards IDE cable a DVD Burner drive and a 100GB hard drive. none of them are detected
thats the most important part.

I went to device manager and "scanned for hardware changes" and it found my 100GB hard drive, but it said "you cant use it until you format it" . . .
I said "WTF! it had data already on it. . ."
after pondering i went ahead and tried to format. "Windows could not format the disc"

can anyone help on this issue?

sdedalus83:

--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on December 11, 2009, 02:29:21 AM ---can anyone help on this issue?

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People have already given you good advice which you've rejected.  So no, we aren't going to try to help any more.

GoGeTa006:

--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on December 11, 2009, 02:41:53 AM ---
--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on December 11, 2009, 02:29:21 AM ---can anyone help on this issue?

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People have already given you good advice which you've rejected.  So no, we aren't going to try to help any more.

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I just started to download that linux thing.
Ill try it.

anyways.
The linux was a solution to a problem I cant even have anymore =.= I cant detect the hard drive in the first place (at least not in windows)
ill see if linux can find it and see what I can do from there

kostya:
You say that the drive is showing up in the BIOS, which means that the system sees it fine. Any issues are going to be with Windows. I agree with trying a Ubuntu or Knoppix live CD to get the files off of the drive. Also, for the permission issue, I assume that the drive is no encrypted and that you are administrator of the computer. If so, you can force it to give you permission to use the files. Right click on the files or folders that that you want, go to properties, Security, open up the advanced menu, go to the owner tab, and set yourself as the owner. Play around in the security menu a bit.

BotMan2:

--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on December 10, 2009, 08:48:29 PM ---So I go to that hard drive and try to go to my downloads folder. .. but OH! Its inside documents and settings and I dont have permission to access that folder!

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When you say you 'dont have permission to access that folder', do you mean you can SEE the folder, but there's an error message, OR you cant access the hard disk?

If its the first one, its possible to take permission/ownership of the file.

Keywords are Advanced Security Settings for <folder name>


You can change the owner there.  ;)

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