Re: Need help with a totally avoidable problem

"DougW" <[email protected]>
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indigo did pass the time by typing:
> Frog Prince wrote:
>> How to do this if the system will not recognize the drive?  I've put
>> this drive on another computer running the same OS as a secondary and
>> get an error message that the drive needs to be formatted.
>
> Are you sure you don't have a FAT32/NTFS problem? That would lead to the
> error msg you're seeing, IIRC.

Not sure if this applies in your case but compooters with older BIOS
required drive unique boot information on the drive (Western Digital for one)
that had to be installed before the OS could see the hard drive.  These have
to be removed from the drive before moving it to another system.

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DougW
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