mstation help

[1.6 16v]

i have an mstation and left it in my computer when i formatted it. Now i cant install it. Im plugging it into the comp and i get ide bus disabled and host computer found but the msation never displays itself as a drive.
Ive put it in the car and i get harddrive error(or something very similair)

 

[cuptastic]

BIN IT

we just sold a complete one for £50 as we could not get rid of it

Tom

 

[1.6 16v]

Starting to think that way. Good piece of kit when you can get it working.

Still at £50 id have 10 of you.

good pice of kit when you get it working. They sell for £500 in halfords-about £250 online and about £175 on ebay. prices vary dramatically.

I paid 220 about 18months ago and i was very happy with that price although its pissing me off now

 

[cuptastic]

well when i worked at halfords we had two and could not give em away

Tom

 

[Ben P]

whats up with them then? Are they really unreliable.

Nearly bought one recently for £175 new

 

[1.6 16v]

No they are ok. Reading other newsgroups people only have good things to say about them.

Issues they have is firmware needs upgrading-easily done online.

They take up a station on your comp-in my case meant loosing my cd-writer

Many stereos dont have aux in which means you have to use the fm mnodulator(provided) to link it up to the stereo-sounds like radio quality

 

[Ben P]

ah right, I should be okay then

 

[Gazza]

I have had mine for about 1 year and it work fine. Have done the firmware upgrades and put a 80gb hard drive in. Never had any problems with it i got the version 2.

 

[PaulN]

Sounds like it needs formating

 

[1.6 16v]

Thanks paul thats the conclusion ive come to after reading other newsgroups but how do i do this without installing it on a comp?

I have another old comp ive wrecked trying to install this thing. the comp now boots up detects the mstation but nothing comes up on the monitor

So how do i formatt it?

 

[PaulN]

What ver of windows are you running?

 

[marc_cowley]

wot is this mstation thing? it sounds quite intresting!!

 

[1.6 16v]

Windows 98 paul.

The mstation is like a harddrive based cd changer. It has a 10 gb harddrive in basic form which stores about 3000 songs.

 

[PaulN]

If you go Start > Run and type command

Then type FDISK can you see the drive?