Hard Drive Not Seen in "My Compter"

[Kevin]

I,ve recently installed a Seagate 80GB hard drive as my
slave drive.It has been set up as the Primary
Slave ,jumpers are set to CS .I have formatted/prepared
the drive (NTFS) and it is visible in Disk Management as
being online and Healthy.

If I boot up in Safe Mode the hard drive is seen in "My
Computer", but in normal mode I can't see the drive ("My
Computer")Help Please!!

 

[Guest]

Do you have Tweakui or such the likes installed which may be hiding the drive?

 

[DL]

Why jumpered to CS? set to slave
David

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info Ron - you just saved me from madness. Oroves its worth looking in at these threads when in trouble - thanks again.

Den

----- Ron Rector wrote: -----

Do you have Tweakui or such the likes installed which may be hiding the drive?

 

[Melvin \(clever alias\)]

Kevin,

Go back and check thejumper settings on your drives.

Unless you have a special "Cable Select" cable, you should NOT use the "CS"
/ "CSEL" jumper setting on either of your drives. If you DO have a Cable
Select cable, then you should use the CS / CSEL jumpers on both drives.
Your primary drive in this case will be the one at the end of the cable and
the secondary will be on the middle connector.

It is more likely that you have a regular (Non Cable Select) cable. In this
case, set the jumper on your new drive to "Master" and change the jumper on
the old drive to "Slave". You will connect the new drive to the end
connector and connect the old drive to the middle connector.

Lastly there are old 40-pin/40-wire IDE cables and newer 40-pin/80-wire IDE
cables. The newer cables support Ultra ATA 66/100/133 Mbit/s transfer rates
and are recommended also for use with older 33 Mbit/s drives. Your new
drive is almost certainly Ultra ATA 100 or 133 so you should definitely get
one of the newer cables to use with it. Most drive upgrades will come with
one of these cables... Visually, you can recognize the cable as being
"finer" - it's the same width but you can see that there are twice as many
wires as a 40-wire cable.

"Melvin"

 

[Melvin \(clever alias\)]

Kevin,

Go back and check thejumper settings on your drives.

Unless you have a special "Cable Select" cable, you should NOT use the "CS"
/ "CSEL" jumper setting on either of your drives. If you DO have a Cable
Select cable, then you should use the CS / CSEL jumpers on both drives.
Your primary drive in this case will be the one at the end of the cable and
the secondary will be on the middle connector.

It is more likely that you have a regular (Non Cable Select) cable. In this
case, set the jumper on your new drive to "Master" and change the jumper on
the old drive to "Slave". You will connect the new drive to the end
connector and connect the old drive to the middle connector.

Lastly there are old 40-pin/40-wire IDE cables and newer 40-pin/80-wire IDE
cables. The newer cables support Ultra ATA 66/100/133 Mbit/s transfer rates
and are recommended also for use with older 33 Mbit/s drives. Your new
drive is almost certainly Ultra ATA 100 or 133 so you should definitely get
one of the newer cables to use with it. Most drive upgrades will come with
one of these cables... Visually, you can recognize the cable as being
"finer" - it's the same width but you can see that there are twice as many
wires as a 40-wire cable.

"Melvin"