new OS not recognising hard drive

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In case it was missed the first time....

Apologies for the multi post.

This is driving me nuts. I was running win2k - primary hd (seagate) was
20gig, secondary (maxtor) 200gig with about 100gig of data. When all was
running well, the original seagate drive - with OS - had jumpers set to CS;
and so did the secondary. The seagate HD got knackered. so, i shoved in a
replacement HD (20 gig western digital), installed new win2k again only now,
the second drive isn't being recognised. under 'disk management' it says
something like the drive is unreadable or damaged and that this is a
'dynamic' drive whereas the primary drive is 'basic'. the old seagate
primary was also basic so i'd have thought this made no difference in case
there's a compatibility issue or something. messed around like crazy with
jumper settings (went to both drive manufacturer sites and got all
docs/settings) and the best i can get is the second drive being picked up as
'basic' but only when i set the jumper to 'Slave with CLJ'. however, even
when it does come up in my computer, only 31.5gig is seen. I can't access
this drive because i'm told the drive is unformatted! aargh! someone help,
please!!!!!!!!! tia. mojo
 
In case it was missed the first time....

Apologies for the multi post.

This is driving me nuts. I was running win2k - primary hd (seagate)
was 20gig, secondary (maxtor) 200gig with about 100gig of data. When
all was running well, the original seagate drive - with OS - had
jumpers set to CS; and so did the secondary. The seagate HD got
knackered. so, i shoved in a replacement HD (20 gig western digital),
installed new win2k again only now, the second drive isn't being
recognised. under 'disk management' it says something like the drive
is unreadable or damaged and that this is a 'dynamic' drive whereas
the primary drive is 'basic'. the old seagate primary was also basic
so i'd have thought this made no difference in case there's a
compatibility issue or something. messed around like crazy with jumper
settings (went to both drive manufacturer sites and got all
docs/settings) and the best i can get is the second drive being picked
up as 'basic' but only when i set the jumper to 'Slave with CLJ'.
however, even when it does come up in my computer, only 31.5gig is
seen. I can't access this drive because i'm told the drive is
unformatted! aargh! someone help, please!!!!!!!!! tia. mojo
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Have you tried to put the second drive at the second IDE channel?
 
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