Second Hard Drive

[brent.collins]

I'm using Windows XP and I just upgraded my second
(slave) hard drive from a Maxtor 12.7 GB to a Western
Digital 120 GB. The Maxtor worked fine, but now the
system won't recognize the WD 120 GB. In My Computer,
only the Primary Drive shows up.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Brent

 

[Gerry]

First, I would check my cable connections and make sure
everything is hooked up correctly. Check your IDE and
power cables. When you power up the computer, put your
hand on top of the drive (not the side with the circuit
board) and see if you can feel the drive spinning. I
would then check the jumper settings. Make sure you have
the jumper settings configured as slave, not master. Last
I would go in to the BIOS and make sure you have the 2nd
drive option enabled. It should say AUTO. Hope one of
these helps. Good luck.

 

[Chip Cosgrove \(MSFT\)]

Does your BIOS correctly identify the 120GB disk? If not, check your
hardware configurations to make sure the cables are properly seated and the
master/slave relationship is correctly set. If the bios is correctly
identifying the disk, when the OS loads, right click on 'My Computer' Go
into 'Manage' and under the Computer Management console, go into Disk
Management. If the disk appears there, create a partition and format it and
it should be available for use.

Chip

 

[Casey MacPherson \(msft\)]

If you just added the hard drive, it hasn't been properly initialized yet
with a partition that would be visible to the OS. You'll need to go to the
diskmanager to initialize the disk to make it available.

goto start -> control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management

click on the Disk Management option under the Storage node in the left hand
area.

There you should see the second disk. By right clicking on it, you will be
allowed to create a new partition.

-Casey

 

[Timothy Daniels]

I'm using Windows XP and I just upgraded my second
(slave) hard drive from a Maxtor 12.7 GB to a Western
Digital 120 GB. The Maxtor worked fine, but now the
system won't recognize the WD 120 GB. In My Computer,
only the Primary Drive shows up.

Did you plug the power cable into the WD drive as well
as the data cable?

Western Data's jumper settings are different from other
HD manufacturers. Did you jumper it correctly?

*TimDaniels*

 

[fv]

I ran into the same problem. I booted the system from
the XP cd, then partitioned the hdd only without
reinstalling windows. I hope this helps.

 

[Twitch]

Westren Digital hard drives come with a install disk to
run from dos. You can use this disk to also format it and
partition it.