add 2nd hard drive

[Guest]

i have installed a 2nd hard drive jumpered as cable direct on the same ide
ribbon as the main hard drive.it shows when i check the bios,it shows when i
ask windows to detect my hardware but i cannot see it in my computer or
windows explorer. what am i diong wrong

 

[Alias]

Did you change the pins to make it a slave drive?
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:i have installed a 2nd hard drive jumpered as cable direct on the same ide
: ribbon as the main hard drive.it shows when i check the bios,it shows when
i
: ask windows to detect my hardware but i cannot see it in my computer or
: windows explorer. what am i diong wrong

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Jumper it as slave.

A drive has to be partitioned before it can be seen by explorer. It has to
be formatted before it can be used.
Right click the My Computer Icon and select "Manage". Then from the Storage
section click "Disk Management". In the right side pane right click your
second drive and select the options to partition and format.

 

[Art]

Jumper it as slave.

A drive has to be partitioned before it can be seen by explorer. It has to
be formatted before it can be used.
Right click the My Computer Icon and select "Manage". Then from the
Storage section click "Disk Management". In the right side pane right
click your second drive and select the options to partition and format.

Harry:
As you inferred, the likelihood is that the OP hasn't partitioned/formatted
his new drive and that accounts for his problem.

What I'm curious about is why you recommend he jumper the drive as Slave. He
states he jumpered the drive as Cable Select (I know he said "cable direct",
but let's assume he meant Cable Select). Again, assuming that his Primary
drive on the same IDE cable is jumpered Cable Select, do you see any problem
in this configuration, i.e., both devices jumpered CS? I raise the question
since for the last couple of years we've been building our computers using
the CS configuration in nearly every case, and assuming reasonably modern
motherboards and IDE/ATAPI devices, we rarely, if ever run into problems
using this configuration. It is true that early on (when CS was introduced
some years ago) there were problems with this configuration. But at least in
our experience those problems have virtually disappeared over the past few
years. And from a builder's point of view, CS makes life a lot easier for us
since we're only concerned with the device's position on the IDE cable
without regard to its jumpered position when it's CS.

Would appreciate your comments on this.
Art

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Harry:
As you inferred, the likelihood is that the OP hasn't
partitioned/formatted his new drive and that accounts for his problem.

What I'm curious about is why you recommend he jumper the drive as Slave.
He states he jumpered the drive as Cable Select (I know he said "cable
direct", but let's assume he meant Cable Select). Again, assuming that his
Primary drive on the same IDE cable is jumpered Cable Select, do you see
any problem in this configuration, i.e., both devices jumpered CS? I raise
the question since for the last couple of years we've been building our
computers using the CS configuration in nearly every case, and assuming
reasonably modern motherboards and IDE/ATAPI devices, we rarely, if ever
run into problems using this configuration. It is true that early on (when
CS was introduced some years ago) there were problems with this
configuration. But at least in our experience those problems have
virtually disappeared over the past few years. And from a builder's point
of view, CS makes life a lot easier for us since we're only concerned with
the device's position on the IDE cable without regard to its jumpered
position when it's CS.

Would appreciate your comments on this.
Art

Art what you are saying sounds fine to me. However I don't like to make too
many assumptions. Having said that though I did assume that HD0 is jumpered
as Master on the OP's system. As for using CS I guess it is half a dozen of
one and 6 of another. I could manually set all the jumpers to CS, as
virtually all HDs I purchase come factory set as Master, and then just
attach them correctly or simply move the jumpers over to Slave on the
systems that I'm attaching a second drive to.

 

[Alex Nichol]

What I'm curious about is why you recommend he jumper the drive as Slave. He
states he jumpered the drive as Cable Select (I know he said "cable direct",
but let's assume he meant Cable Select). Again, assuming that his Primary
drive on the same IDE cable is jumpered Cable Select, do you see any problem
in this configuration,

That is making an assumption that the existing drive is set CS, and that
a CS cable is in use. There is also the possibility that a CD is in
that position, and this is a new cable (likely not CS) on the second
controller. Having it set as slave avoids confusions

 

[Art]

That is making an assumption that the existing drive is set CS, and that
a CS cable is in use. There is also the possibility that a CD is in
that position, and this is a new cable (likely not CS) on the second
controller. Having it set as slave avoids confusions

Alex:
The OP stated that this second drive was installed on the *same* IDE cable
as his primary drive and that his primary drive was jumpered as Cable Select
(he did say "cable direct" but it's apparent he meant CS). It's reasonable
to assume he's using an 80-wire IDE cable given that configuration. Under
these circumstances there's no reason not to use CS.
Art

 

[Guest]

shaggy, iam having the same problem plus i cant get into the bios to change
anything.it keep telling to hit F2to run setup, but it doesnt do anything.
george