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November 6th, 2005 15:00
Adding a 2nd hard drive
I have
Dimension 4100 system......1 gb with 364 memory. operating system is windows xp pro. This system came with 20gb hard drive.
I have purchased a 80gb maxtor diamondmax plus 9 hard drive. w/ 2mb buffer.
upon installing this 80gb hard drive. My computer identifies the new hard drive....the install wizard is activated. but returns with error code 28 on other occasions this service is not available.....
I have sp1 pack installed....as well the sp2 pack installed for windows xp.
NOTE: i had intially purchased a wester digital 160gb hard drive with the same error's...so i returned it and got this one thinking dimesion could not support anything higher then 120gb addition.
Any help would be apperciated.
Thank you
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1Bowtie
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November 6th, 2005 15:00
ceri sheeran
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November 6th, 2005 15:00
Hi,
Assuming the computer is booting into Windows XP normally
You need to partititon and format ther drive
Control Panel
Adminstative Tools
Computer Management
Storage
Disk Management
Select the drive and partition and format it.
If you have installed the new drive and removed the old, change boot order to CD drive first in BIOS and boot from Windows XP CD and install XP
hth
Ceri
ajschwab2004
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November 6th, 2005 16:00
B4runo
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November 6th, 2005 17:00
ajschwab2004:
Here is the link to the D4100 user guide, http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dzuul/eidetxt.htm , speaking about jumper settings on all EIDE drives should be set as "cable select." :
The enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) subsystem includes two EIDE interfaces (primary and secondary), each of which can support up to two EIDE devices such as high-capacity hard drives, CD drives, DVD drives, and CD-RW drives.
All EIDE devices should be configured for the Cable Select jumper position, which assigns master and slave status to devices by their position on the interface cable (see Table 2 in "Technical Overview" for EIDE interface cable connections for Dell-installed drives). In this configuration, the drive attached to the last connector on the interface cable is the master or boot drive (drive 0) and the drive attached to the middle connector on the interface cable is the slave drive (drive 1). Refer to the drive’s documentation for instructions on setting the Cable Select jumper position.
When you replace a drive, refer to the jumpers on the original drive to set the jumpers on the replacement drive."
HTH,:smileyhappy:
B4runo
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Message Edited by B4runo on 11-06-2005 11:12 AM
sharm
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November 7th, 2005 00:00
I have it installed....Appears that you just ignore the installation wizard and carry on. It worked once the master slave relationship was identified...does not appear to work on cable select as it seemed to want to the make the bigger device the primary (which had no OS on it).