The Hard Drive configuration is just about right, because if there were major
problems, it would not be accessible under computer management. Confirm this
by clicking START> RUN>
type in 'compmgmt.msc' click OK
Click on Disk Management and check that both drives are identified.
If so, then you have managed to properly configure the physical connection
of the two hard drives onto IDE Cable and Interface and also managed a proper
jumper setting for each drive. If not power off and try again until they are
both identified: see below for other suggestions as to how this can be
achieved.
One primary partition at a time must be marked as ‘Active’ designating it as
the one from which the computer will boot: in almost all cases this should be
the ‘C-Drive’.
One partition can be allocated as an Extended Partition. These differ in
that they are not formatted with a file system or assigned a specific drive
letter [‘D’, thru to ‘Z’].
An Extended Partition is then a dedicated area of disk space in which one
can then create a number of Logical Drives.
Logical Drives are similar to primary partitions in that they are
individually formatted with a file system and assigned a drive letter: thus
an extended partition can have an unlimited number of Logical Drives each
with its own drive letter, none of the Logical drives is bootable.
Now consider the above and then use drive management to ensure that the
drive is not active and has a drive letter assigned.
If you still have problems, try connecting it to the secondary IDE interface
as the only device [not the same as the one for C Drive] and see if it is
accessible in My COmputer. If so transfer all the files to C Drive then
Reformat, Repartition etc and power off the PC. Then if you have to put it
onto the primary IDE interface with the C Drive, jumpered as SLAVE making
sure C Drive is MASTER.
Restart the PC and see if this drive is now identified as D Drive. If so
copy files back across from C Drive. Shut down the PC and then reconnect
Optical Drive
to secondary IDE Interface.
If the above steps don't resolve the problem: take the hard drive to another
PC and see if it can be accessed and data transferred. If you succeed with
this: thenreformat and partition on the other PC and place it back into your
PC; following my suggestions.
Adomonster said:
I'm *fairly* sure they are set correctly. The IDE cable is Ultra ATA
selective and the jumper settings are correct by each HDD's instructions, but
the jumper placings differ for each. In that ;;;: would be the master on the
first drive, whereas :;;; is the master on the other and vice versa for the
slave. Have tried them both set to CS. Currently set to Master and Slave as
per each's diagram. Maybe the cable is confused!
