Additional Hard Drive Installation

[Alex Nichol]

Thanks for your advice, however when I do go to the Disk Management
and "..look lower right for the graphic of the drive. - it
should show there.."
IT ISN'T THERE??!!
This is what I can't understand! When I first turn my computer on and go
into the setup CMOS, I see the new Primary Slave Hard Drive there (80gb),
but when I continue the boot and Windows XP then boots up, there is no new
drive recognised by Disk management??!!

If it is not seen at all in Device Manager (not Disk Management) it is
likely it is not properly connected. Check jumpers and cabling. If it
shares with a CD it should be the master, and on the end connector of an
80 wire high speed cable to the 40 pin IDE sockets., And make sure the
BIOS correctly auto detects it and has it as an LBA disk

 

[Trent©]

If it is not seen at all in Device Manager (not Disk Management) it is
likely it is not properly connected.

He sees it okay in the CMOS post.


Have a nice one...

Trent

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[Art]

Ramson again...

"..the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard dialog box will automatically
appear upon bootup.."

No this doesn't appear!?

access the Disk Management utility (Start > Control
Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management).

No this doesn't happen!?

When I go to the Disk Management there is only my 40gb Master HD and my
CD-ROM drive. No new HD awaiting initialising, formating,
partitioning....

My Windows XP is uptodate with SP1 & SP2.

Are you absolutely certain that you correctly installed your new hard drive,
i.e., it's jumpered correctly and the IDE cable is properly seated?
Art