S
Sam
I am trying to introduce an additional hard drive into an older PC and
run a dual boot system, running XP pro on two different hard drives.
The PC currently has XP pro installed on the C drive (primary master
IDE). All is working fine and I have just added another drive on the
secondary master. This channel has a CD/DVD player as slave. Both hard
drive and slave are configured correctly with the switches.
After installing the 2nd drive, I set up one partition, formatted it as
NFTS, primary partition, using the WIn XP CD and the BIOS detects this
drive. Also, booting into Windows on the C: drive I can see the new
drive and everything seems to be functioning normally. I checked this in
disk management, where I also set the partition on the new drive as
active as I thought this might be why Win set up couldn't see the drive.
Anyhow, booting to my XP setup CD I get as far as the screen where it
displays what hard drives are available to install Windows onto, and it
only displays the C: drive.
Given that the new drive is detected by both BIOS and from within
Windows on the C: drive, I can't see what I've missed. Any ideas?
run a dual boot system, running XP pro on two different hard drives.
The PC currently has XP pro installed on the C drive (primary master
IDE). All is working fine and I have just added another drive on the
secondary master. This channel has a CD/DVD player as slave. Both hard
drive and slave are configured correctly with the switches.
After installing the 2nd drive, I set up one partition, formatted it as
NFTS, primary partition, using the WIn XP CD and the BIOS detects this
drive. Also, booting into Windows on the C: drive I can see the new
drive and everything seems to be functioning normally. I checked this in
disk management, where I also set the partition on the new drive as
active as I thought this might be why Win set up couldn't see the drive.
Anyhow, booting to my XP setup CD I get as far as the screen where it
displays what hard drives are available to install Windows onto, and it
only displays the C: drive.
Given that the new drive is detected by both BIOS and from within
Windows on the C: drive, I can't see what I've missed. Any ideas?