Help with New Hard Drive

[Richard]

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>>Have a second hard drive installed its a slave drive,
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>>can't see it load on boot up, screen too fast.
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>>/dev/hd* does not find it
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>>I would like to format this drive, and mount it.
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>>pls: how does one do this?
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>>-Rich
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> You don't give me lots of info to work with...:) I don't know how
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> Can you see the Hard drive in your BIOS. Is it visible as a drive you
> can select as a drive to boot from? If not, check your jumper settings.
> Your old drive my be on Cable select and the new one as slave, this
> could produce problems. Make sure that the master drive has the jumper
> settings for master and that the slave is set to slave. Some new drives
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> Is the drive IDE or SATA. If it's new it's probably SATA and we'll have
> to approach this differently.
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> If you do see the drive in the BIOS, do you have a second OS? Can you
> see the drive in this OS?
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> If no second OS you can install GParted. It's a partition utility for
> Linux and will mount, unmount and partition any drive if you connected
> it correctly.
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> To install Gparted:
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>>sudo apt-get install gparted
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> Gparted has a great GUI and is easy to use. Use the drop down in the
> top right hand corner to locate your drive.
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> Hope this helps!:)
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On Mac, there is no bios setup,
and its a IDE drive ATA133
second, I see gparted in synaptic package installer,
will download and install it.

Rich