glee said:
Did you enter BIOS setup after connecting the drive, and use the IDE
Auto-Detect routine there, to enumerate all the drives? If there is no
menu option for IDE Auto-Detect on the first BIOS screen, enter the
Standard CMOS Features screen (or similar....usually the first listed menu
screen) and set all Primary and Secondary IDE to AUTO. Save the changes
and exit.
Terri:
While it is possible, as Glen points out, that the BIOS has not detected
your secondary HDD and that is causing your problem, in nearly every case we
come across involving non-recognition of a non-defective secondary HDD, the
problem results from misconnection/misconfiguration of the drive.
Do check your BIOS to determine if the HDD is detected there, and assuming
it is, carefully recheck your connections and configuration (jumper setting)
of the HDD.
We're assuming that there's no problem with booting to your XP operating
system, i.e., it boots without incident and functions properly. So that the
only problem involves the non-recognition of your secondary HDD.
Is the HDD listed in Device Manager under the "Disk drives" section? If not,
while the "Disk drives" item is highlighted, click on the Action menu item
and click "Scan for hardware changes". See if it's then listed.
If the HDD is listed in Device Manager, access the Disk Management utility
(Start > right-click My Computer > Manage > Computer Management > Disk
Management) and see if the drive is listed there. If so, but it doesn't have
a drive letter assigned, then assign a drive letter to it.
Again, we're assuming in all this that the disk is non-defective and you've
correctly connected & configured it in your machine.
If still no go, connect the drive to the other IDE channel, again ensuring
that it's correctly jumpered.
Anna
