Harddrive not recognized?

[Guest]

My primary harddrive is connected via SATA interface.
Yesterday I added a second harddrive, but it is connected via IDE interface.
My BIOS recognizes both drives (with the IDE being the slave)....
however, when I've booted up WinXP Home, the IDE drive isn't seen
(recognized?).
How do I find the second drive in XP?



I am adding the second drive so I can install WinXP64... will it be possible
to dual boot using the slave? (Assuming I can eventually get it recognized?)

Thanks for your help!

 

[Shenan Stanley]

My primary harddrive is connected via SATA interface.
Yesterday I added a second harddrive, but it is connected via IDE
interface. My BIOS recognizes both drives (with the IDE being the
slave)....

however, when I've booted up WinXP Home, the IDE drive isn't seen
(recognized?). How do I find the second drive in XP?

I am adding the second drive so I can install WinXP64... will it be
possible to dual boot using the slave? (Assuming I can eventually get
it recognized?)

What is the IDE drive a slave to?
If it is a CD drive - I would make it a master and the CD slave - not that
it matters too much - but at least you've touched all the jumpers for the
drive ion that cable change at that point.

As for it being able to dual boot using the slave - probably - but the boot
secotr will still be on the primary boot drive.

 

[Anna]

What is the IDE drive a slave to?
If it is a CD drive - I would make it a master and the CD slave - not that
it matters too much - but at least you've touched all the jumpers for the
drive ion that cable change at that point.

As for it being able to dual boot using the slave - probably - but the
boot secotr will still be on the primary boot drive.

ike:
Just to add to Shenan's comments...

It's not clear why you've connected your PATA HD as a Slave. I assume from
your description of your setup that you're working with two HDs - one SATA,
the other PATA. Since you're intending to boot from either drive it probably
would be best if you would connect/configure your PATA drive as Primary
Master. While it could boot from the Slave position, many BIOS's balk at
this. Is there any reason why you have chosen to connect that drive as a
Slave?

Now as to why your system does not detect the PATA drive (regardless of
whether it's connected as Master or Slave), there could be a number of
reasons, e.g.,
1. You mentioned you just added this HD to your system. Did you
partition/format it?
2. Are you absolutely sure you've properly connected/configured it? That its
data/power cables are non-defective & properly secured?
3. That the drive is not defective?
4. You've accessed the Disk Management utility to see if there are any clues
there, yes?
(The list goes on, but I think you get the message, right?)

As to your query re dual-booting, yes, it's possible to do so after
successfully installing each OS on its own drive.
Anna

 

[Guest]

I have a slave drive that was recognized prior to experiencing a virus. I
reformatted my primary drive and reinstalled Windows XP. Now, my slave isn't
recognized. What can I do??
Thanks!
Diane

 

[Anna]

I have a slave drive that was recognized prior to experiencing a virus. I
reformatted my primary drive and reinstalled Windows XP. Now, my slave
isn't recognized. What can I do??
Thanks!
Diane

Diane:
You must provide more details re your problem...

1. When you say your "slave (drive) isn't recognized", what exactly do you
mean? It's not listed in Device Manager? It's not shown when you open
Windows Explorer or My Computer?

2. Can you tell whether the problem drive is detected by your motherboard's
BIOS when you boot up?

3. Do you see anything re that drive when you access Disk Management? (Start

right-click My Computer > Manage > Computer Management > Disk Management).

Tell us *precisely* what you see if that drive is listed. Is it possible the
drive is shown but no drive letter has been assigned to it? Can you then
assign a drive letter to it?

4. Did you make any physical changes involving that drive either before or
after you reinstalled XP on your primary HD?

5. And there's no problem booting with your newly-formatted primary HD,
right? It's entirely functional with the exception of this non-recognition
problem involving your secondary HD, right?

6. You've no reason to believe that problem drive might be defective or
improperly connected/configured, right?
Anna