Re: Need help with a totally avoidable problem

"DougW" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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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.

Would that be an issue if the drive is now a secondary or slave drive?