2nd HDD in vista

Hi

Just built a system with a SATA HDD as the boot disk and a DVD drive on the
IDE cable. I've just added an IDE HDD on to the same cable as the DVD and
although the BIOS recognises it's there when Vista boots it can't seem to
find it.

Do I need to move the jumper on the back of the Drive to Slave (it's
currently on Cable Select) or would I be better getting an IDE-SATA convertor
and using the spare SATA socket on the MB? Or am I just being totally dense
and missing something really obvious?

Cheers in advance for your help

Just thought, the disk had been used in a Netgear network drive, so would
have been formatted in a different way to Windows - if I go to Disk
management and create a partition would that solve the problem do you think?

"Martin W13" wrote:

> Hi
>
> Just built a system with a SATA HDD as the boot disk and a DVD drive on the
> IDE cable. I've just added an IDE HDD on to the same cable as the DVD and
> although the BIOS recognises it's there when Vista boots it can't seem to
> find it.
>
> Do I need to move the jumper on the back of the Drive to Slave (it's
> currently on Cable Select) or would I be better getting an IDE-SATA convertor
> and using the spare SATA socket on the MB? Or am I just being totally dense
> and missing something really obvious?
>
> Cheers in advance for your help
>

unless there is something you need to save on it,
I'd partiation and format it.



mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com



"Martin W13" <MartinW13@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:013DC8DA-FA2D-42E8-BE13-94EA130D41FC@microsoft.com...
Just thought, the disk had been used in a Netgear network drive, so would
have been formatted in a different way to Windows - if I go to Disk
management and create a partition would that solve the problem do you think?

"Martin W13" wrote:

> Hi
>
> Just built a system with a SATA HDD as the boot disk and a DVD drive on the
> IDE cable. I've just added an IDE HDD on to the same cable as the DVD and
> although the BIOS recognises it's there when Vista boots it can't seem to
> find it.
>
> Do I need to move the jumper on the back of the Drive to Slave (it's
> currently on Cable Select) or would I be better getting an IDE-SATA convertor
> and using the spare SATA socket on the MB? Or am I just being totally dense
> and missing something really obvious?
>
> Cheers in advance for your help
>

Thanks for the help, that's exactly what I've done and it works perfectly.
Thanks again

"mikeyhsd" wrote:

> unless there is something you need to save on it,
> I'd partiation and format it.
>
>
>
> mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com
>
>
>
> "Martin W13" <MartinW13@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:013DC8DA-FA2D-42E8-BE13-94EA130D41FC@microsoft.com...
> Just thought, the disk had been used in a Netgear network drive, so would
> have been formatted in a different way to Windows - if I go to Disk
> management and create a partition would that solve the problem do you think?
>
> "Martin W13" wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Just built a system with a SATA HDD as the boot disk and a DVD drive on the
> > IDE cable. I've just added an IDE HDD on to the same cable as the DVD and
> > although the BIOS recognises it's there when Vista boots it can't seem to
> > find it.
> >
> > Do I need to move the jumper on the back of the Drive to Slave (it's
> > currently on Cable Select) or would I be better getting an IDE-SATA convertor
> > and using the spare SATA socket on the MB? Or am I just being totally dense
> > and missing something really obvious?
> >
> > Cheers in advance for your help
> >

you are most welcome, enjoy the 2 hard drives.

by the way, you might consider moving the page file to the second hard drive.



mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com



"Martin W13" <MartinW13@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2F56AE3C-B426-4D59-ABD7-282C41DDBDCD@microsoft.com...
Thanks for the help, that's exactly what I've done and it works perfectly.
Thanks again

"mikeyhsd" wrote:

> unless there is something you need to save on it,
> I'd partiation and format it.
>
>
>
> mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com
>
>
>
> "Martin W13" <MartinW13@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:013DC8DA-FA2D-42E8-BE13-94EA130D41FC@microsoft.com...
> Just thought, the disk had been used in a Netgear network drive, so would
> have been formatted in a different way to Windows - if I go to Disk
> management and create a partition would that solve the problem do you think?
>
> "Martin W13" wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Just built a system with a SATA HDD as the boot disk and a DVD drive on the
> > IDE cable. I've just added an IDE HDD on to the same cable as the DVD and
> > although the BIOS recognises it's there when Vista boots it can't seem to
> > find it.
> >
> > Do I need to move the jumper on the back of the Drive to Slave (it's
> > currently on Cable Select) or would I be better getting an IDE-SATA convertor
> > and using the spare SATA socket on the MB? Or am I just being totally dense
> > and missing something really obvious?
> >
> > Cheers in advance for your help
> >