Adding 3rd Hard Drive

[joshduffus]

I've got a quick question. I've got a Gigabyte K8NSP motherboard with 4 IDE channels. 2 of these may be used for RAID, but I don't plan on using RAID. I currently have 2 WD 80GB on the primatry IDE, and 2 optical drives on the secondary. I want to add a 250GB to my system without losing any of my other drives (if possible). When I plugged in the 250 GB, it wasn't recoginized in the BIOS or within Windows XP Pro. It didn't show up under disk management either.
I assume I can add the drive on the 3rd or 4th IDE channel, but I'm not sure how to configure it. Can anyone help?

Thanks!


Specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte K8NSP w/ AMD64 3000
2 WD 80GB
PNY GeForce 6800 Ultra
1 GB (2 sticks) PC 2700 Corsair RAM
Enermax 365 Watt Power Supply
Soundblaster Audigy 2
Pioneer DVD-ROM
Lite On DVD-Burner

 

[Zugzwang152]

check your jumper settings on the hard drive, and make sure the other 2 channels aren't disabled somehow in the BIOS.

 

[shoRunner]

for my 3rd ide on my board i just had to set in bios that it was ide instead of the default raid setting.

 

[airfoil]

You probably need to enable the ports for the 3rd & 4th IDE in the BIOS.