Recognizing My Second Hard Drive

[Guest]

I have added a second hard drive as a slave drive. Both dirves are 160 GB,
Windows will recognize the second drive for a while then it suddenly
disappears. I have partitioned the second drive into a ~40 GB and ~120 GB
drives. I have installed the second one 4 times, and am afraid to put data
on it for fear of losing it. BTW - BIO recognizes both, but Windows won't at
least in explorer? Can anyone help me???

 

[Anna]

I have added a second hard drive as a slave drive. Both dirves are 160 GB,
Windows will recognize the second drive for a while then it suddenly
disappears. I have partitioned the second drive into a ~40 GB and ~120 GB
drives. I have installed the second one 4 times, and am afraid to put
data
on it for fear of losing it. BTW - BIO recognizes both, but Windows won't
at
least in explorer? Can anyone help me???

RB:
When you say " Windows will recognize the second drive for a while then it
suddenly disappears.", what precisely does this mean? When you boot up that
drive appears (is listed) in My Computer and Windows Explorer for x amount
of minutes, and then "disappears"?

Or sometimes the drive appears upon boot up and other times it doesn't?

What does Disk Management show re that drive?

Are you *certain* that your IDE connections are proper & secure and that the
drive is correctly jumpered?

And that the drive has been properly partitioned and formatted?
Anna

 

[Guest]

Yes to your two questions on IDE connections and jumpers.

The drive recognition is being lost upon a reboot or a cold boot. I
understand windows is aware of this problem and is researching it.