second hard drive

[Guest]

I have a 20gb hd running XP pro unknown make and has the jumper settings set
to master and a 15gb samsung hd set to slave when I boot up the slave hd does
not show up in My Computer but it does in device manager and tells me it is
working ok
any help much appreciated

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have a 20gb hd running XP pro unknown make and has the jumper
settings set to master and a 15gb samsung hd set to slave when I
boot up the slave hd does not show up in My Computer but it does in
device manager and tells me it is working ok
any help much appreciated

Did you initialize and give it a drive letter in Disk Manager?

 

[Guest]

Did you initialize and give it a drive letter in Disk Manager?

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I'm not sure how to initialise or give it a device letter

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have a 20gb hd running XP pro unknown make and has the jumper
settings set to master and a 15gb samsung hd set to slave when I
boot up the slave hd does not show up in My Computer but it does
in device manager and tells me it is working ok
any help much appreciated

Did you initialize and give it a drive letter in Disk Manager?

I'm not sure how to initialise or give it a device letter

Start button --> Help and Support
Search for "Disk Management"...

You should see a subject "Disk Management: how to..." and "Using Disk Management"...

Those two links should help you out (straight from your own computer. ;-) )