2 hds one wont work

[lostone510]

hey all im a newbie with this comp stuff. i know a lil about hardware. i got two hds, i installed one with xp. and the other is also installed. i one reads fine. but in the bios the other one just doesnt show up. i wanted to know what i have to do to put one hd with xp and partition the other hd as drive d. can anyone walk me through it. thanks.

 

[crisp82]

Check all cables connecting to the second, non visisble Hard drive, and ensure that your jumper settings are correct

 

[lostone510]

just to make sure. one has to be primary and the other has to be slave right. or does the second one have to be cable select???

 

[RichUK]

use one IDE cable, plug it into to channel 0 on the mobo, (or which ever one you want doesn't really matter) i presume you know which end goes into the motherboard (the one with the most distance AWAY from the centre slave IDE socket).

then set both HDD's to cable select via the jumpers on the back of the HDD, and then the HDD with the OS (Xp) on, put that on the ending IDE connecter on the opposite end of the IDE ribon cable plugged into the motherboard, then plug the secodary HDD onto the left over IDE connector in the middle of the IDE cable (the slave connector).

Then boot into BIOS have a look around (i dont know what your BIOS is), and then make sure that both slave and primary are enabled on which ever channel you have plugged the IDE cable into (either 0 or 1), infact just enable all of them shouldn't make a difference.. then you set to go, oh and also make sure that you set the HDD with the OS installed on to 1st in the boot priorty, if you have the option to in the BIOS that is ..

hope this helps

 

[TechHead87]

I had the same problem a few months ago.

Turns out, the IDE cable on my slave drive was shot.