julian1982
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hey all, my 30 gig hard drive has simply stopped being recognized by windows ME.
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system properties -> device manager -> disk drives
'disk drive' has a red X through it. when i click on it's properties it says
"this device is not working properly because a device it depends on, Primary IDE controller (dual fifo), has been dynamically disabled."
under 'hard disk controllers' it has a yellow ! next to Primary IDE controller (dual fifo), so i click on it's properties and it says
'this device is either not present, not working properly, or does not have all the drivers installed (code 10). try upgrading the device drivers for this device'
this makes no sense because i think the primary drive is the 4 gig drive which has the operating system on it, and it's the 30 gig drive (used only for audio) that isn't recognized by windows. it's recognized by bios because it says that it's there when the computer is booting up, so it's not a lose cable or anything like that. i just can't access it from windows. im running windows ME...... and Fdisk doesn't recognize it either.
please help! what's wrong? i hadn't touched the inside of the computer or changed any settings on the computer or anything like that, the second hard disk (which i need!) simply stopped being recognized by windows. it's done this before and after a week it started working again without me changing anything, but this time it's been about 2 weeks and still no change.
any advice????
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system properties -> device manager -> disk drives
'disk drive' has a red X through it. when i click on it's properties it says
"this device is not working properly because a device it depends on, Primary IDE controller (dual fifo), has been dynamically disabled."
under 'hard disk controllers' it has a yellow ! next to Primary IDE controller (dual fifo), so i click on it's properties and it says
'this device is either not present, not working properly, or does not have all the drivers installed (code 10). try upgrading the device drivers for this device'
this makes no sense because i think the primary drive is the 4 gig drive which has the operating system on it, and it's the 30 gig drive (used only for audio) that isn't recognized by windows. it's recognized by bios because it says that it's there when the computer is booting up, so it's not a lose cable or anything like that. i just can't access it from windows. im running windows ME...... and Fdisk doesn't recognize it either.
please help! what's wrong? i hadn't touched the inside of the computer or changed any settings on the computer or anything like that, the second hard disk (which i need!) simply stopped being recognized by windows. it's done this before and after a week it started working again without me changing anything, but this time it's been about 2 weeks and still no change.
any advice????