i installed the fc5 but i cant find it on the drives, the drive appears RAW in win xp.
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You should reinstall fedora and set it to overwrite the Windows boot sector. That way you get lilo or grub, whatever fadora uses. Then you can choose either OS from there. The install should set up a Windows chainloader for you. I'm more of a Suze and Gentoo guy myself though.
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Install them into your computer as slave drives and access them thru my computer.  Should be able to cut/copy and paste.  If you do not want to open the computer purchase an ide to usb cable or an external enclosure.  Simply make all of the connections and then do the same as an internal hard drive.  WinXP should automatically find  the drives and install the necesary drivers.  I have done it on several old 5.25" hard drives.  I use them as backups, nothing like extending the life of 7 yr old tech.\n\nFirst link ide to usb cables (I personally have the Bytecc)\nSecond link external enclosures\n\nHope this helps.
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use the free trial of partition magic\nhttp://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/Partition-Magic.shtml\n\nu should be able to see ur hard drive in this proram. once u see if, reformat the hard drive in "NTFS" file system. u should be be able to see the drive in windows once its reformatted.
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if you have XP cd then boot with that and it will give you the option to delete the ntsf file system on it and convert it to fat32 make sure you chose your new hardrive and not the one with all your data on it other wise it will be all lost other ways you can do it is by using a 98 boot disk then type fdisk at the command prompt and then go and delete the none dos partitions on it the place the fat32 partition onto it hope that can hel just search in google to find how to use fdisk
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format your c drive and do a clean installation of XP... make sure you have the drivers for your monitor...
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You may want to run a virus scan on it.  It doesn't sound good.  Try to backup your data file as soon as possible.  The last resort is to format your drive and start over with installing windows.  Good luck.
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It should be USB so if you are using Windows XP it will automatically install the correct drivers. If you have any other O/S you will need to use the driver CD that came with the drive.
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You may need to load some special drivers.  I believe Windows XP will only support like a 138GB partition.  I think the drivers should have come with you hard drive or you probably can download them from Western Digital at their website.  Check out this PDF there is instructions on page 2 http://www.wdc.com/en/library/eide/2079-001026.pdf
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If it's what I'm thinking, you can't see the drive in Disk Management.  Read this post on my technology blog and follow the DiskPart instructions.\n\nhttp://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/2005/11/adding-external-hard-drive-hard-way.html
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If it's windows.\n\n\nYou need to run disk clean up. Click on My Computer and highlight the drive you want to clean. Do a right click and select properties. Run disk clean up.
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ok, to start with it is not your bios, it is not the cables, it is not the jumpers, if any of those were not detecting the drive, windows couuldn't find it in add new hardware, more than likely it is in your registry.\ncheck these tips here, I don't know your operating system or hardware configuration,so I can't be more specific in helping you, but the page might have the anwer\nhttp://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1218041&page=1
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You have to have a boot disk first, then re-format you hard drive from the boot disk, then install win XP. Make sure the boot disk is made from win 98
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The best thing to do in this case is for you to reformat like the others have suggested and install a fresh copy of XP but if you have never done this it might throw you at first. With your machine on, stick in your copy of XP in then reboot. Then after it starts to reboot it will ask you "press any key to boot from CD" Press any key at this point and then wait for it to inspect your systems hardware then it will load some common drivers etc. After that it will look to see if you have any previous versions installed. When it shows you those other versions it will ask you if you want to continue installing Windows on this drive or something like that. At this point you want to get rid of the previous versions and any partitions. If you read carefully you can delete any other versions and/ or partitions and then install a fresh copy of XP. Make sure that you have gotten rid of all other OS's and partitions and if you have it will say "to install on this partition press enter" and you should see "new(raw)" and then however many MB's your drive is. At this point press enter and it will ask you "install XP NTFS or install XP NTFS(quick). Use the first one "install XP NTFS" Press enter and it will start to format the drive and then let it install XP and your all set.
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you should always check the manufacturer's website for drivers, typically in a support or download area.  You can also checkout http://www.windrivers.com an excellent =source for drivers. Once you get the driver, extract it to a folder and then when Windows asks the location of the file, point it to you new folder.
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Try re-installing the drivers for the drive through the Device Manager in the Control Panel.\n\nIf you are unsure whether you have the drivers go to the manufacturer website and search for your model.\n\nThen you sgould be able to download the drivers with instructions on installation.
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Let me get this right, it says you need to format it, in order to be able to use it?  The only thing I can think of is if you were trying to boot from it, it might say that, but Windows is telling you this?  If you were using Windows XP you shouldn't even have needed to install drivers, it should have just worked.  Format means it would completely wipe the drive, typically done when you either want to sell the drive or reinstall Windows.\n\nIs the drive working now?  I just can't fathom this... unless you aren't using Windows XP.  What operating system are you using right now?\n\nI'm asking because if the drive had Windows XP on it, it was most likely formatted as a NTFS drive.  If you plugged the drive into a Windows 98/ME machine, it would not recognize the NTFS format (probably, it's been a LONG time since I've used any Windows 9x OS) and would want to format it.\n\nWell, that's your problem then.  Windows ME will not recognize a drive that had Windows XP on it that was formatted as NTFS.  If the XP drive had been formatted as FAT32 then Windows ME would not have had a problem with it.  But, since it isn't recognizing it, it's a safe assumption that the drive was formatted as NTFS.  I think the "computer guy" assumed that it was FAT32 (though how he could have missed that is beyond me) or that you were going to plug it into another Windows XP machine.  If it were a blank drive (non-formatted) it would indeed be compatible with all the operating systems you listed.  But, as I said, the NTFS format is compatible only with Windows 2000/XP and Mac OS can read NTFS formatted volumes but not write to them.\n\nGet access to a PC that has Windows XP on it, plug the drive it, pull all the files you want off of it, burn them to a CD or stick them on a flash drive and transfer them to your laptop.  Or get yourself a new laptop that has Windows XP on it.  (I don't know how much you are willing to spend in this pursuit).\n\nTo everyone who's answered this question, it's not a drive problem or a USB problem, it's the simple fact that Windows ME cannot read a NTFS formatted drive.\n\nThat gives me another thought.  While you can safely convert a FAT32 volume to NTFS the same is not true for NTFS to FAT32, in fact, it's dangerous, it may result in data loss.  Partition Magic among other programs has the ability to convert a NTFS volume back to FAT32 but it may result in damaging files and you may end up having to reformat the drive after all.\n\nThe only answer and the only correct answer is to plug the drive into a Windows XP or 2000 based system and see if the drive is recognized, I'm 99% sure it will be.  If it is not then I could only take a wild guess as to what is wrong with it.
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Insert your xp disk, and boot from it by pressing any key upon boot.\n\nGo through all steps that you would normally go through for an install it will tell you it found a copy on windows and ask if you want to continue.\n\nPress R and it should start to repair the copy  on your computer.\n\nThis is the most valid answer to such a vague question.\nThere are many things that can cause this from corrupt system files to incompatible hardware.\n\nDon't take it to that IT person again obviously they don't know jack.