Installing an IDE Hard Drive in a Acer Aspire M5620

Moose067

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Feb 1, 2009, 5:08:34 PM2/1/09

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I just purchased an Acer AM5620-E5512A
It is Quad Core Intel

I am trying to install an extra hard drive an IDE 320GB Western Digital
HD.

I am running Vista 64-bit the computer is recognizing the drive as a
floppy drive how can i fix this?

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Rick Rogers

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Feb 1, 2009, 6:15:46 PM2/1/09

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Hi,

How is it seen in the system BIOS? Are you certain you did not connect it to
a FDD controller cable input?

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Feb 1, 2009, 11:08:18 PM2/1/09

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thats what i was going to say

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Addison Steele

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On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 23:08:18 -0500, "pokeyman"
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Moose067

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Feb 2, 2009, 1:36:36 AM2/2/09

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Help please

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Thomas Wendell

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Feb 2, 2009, 7:01:26 AM2/2/09

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How??

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David B.

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Feb 2, 2009, 4:06:08 PM2/2/09

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Answer the questions that were asked, no one can help if you just keep
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>Answer the questions that were asked, no one can help if you just keep
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Moose067

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Feb 2, 2009, 5:57:42 PM2/2/09

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Your right what are the questions?

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> > >Answer the questions that were asked, no one can help if you just
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Danny Krychek

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Feb 2, 2009, 6:38:48 PM2/2/09

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>Your right what are the questions?

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Feb 2, 2009, 8:02:18 PM2/2/09

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On Feb 1, 6:15 pm, "Rick Rogers" <r...@mvps.org> wrote:
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How is it seen in the system BIOS?

It is seen as 320gb floppy. under the CMOS set up

Are you certain you did not connect it to a FDD controller cable
input?

There is only one IDE input on the motherboard.

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Rick Rogers

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And in disk manager? Has a volume been created?

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Moose067

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Feb 3, 2009, 11:04:09 AM2/3/09

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I took the easy way out and just purchased an IDE to SATA Adapter.

Thanks for the help.

Moose067;956294 Wrote:
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Moose067;956901 Wrote:
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> > DDW;956882 Wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:06:08 -0500, "David B." <mail@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > >Answer the questions that were asked, no one can help if you just keep
> > > >asking for help and don't reply to the questions. > > > > Is using one of those vBulletin Usenet gateways and is obviously not
> > getting the replies.
> >
> > DDW
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> > No email please> >

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