I need some Hard Drive Help

[SkylineChiliMan]

Hi I just recently upgraded my computer to a Abit Motherboard, with a Duron 600 mhz. I have two hard drives, and of course I had to format my large hard drive to make the system run smoothly. But I backed a-lot of stuff on my smaller hard drive. The problem is that when I put my smaller hardrive as the master drive(it still has windows on it heh) I can load up Windows and it recognizes the larger hardrive and is able to access it. But when I run my main drive ,the large drive, It runs fine, BUT, it does not detect the smaller drive. Now I know I should probably just get all the stuff off the smaller drive and put it on the big drive than format. But I was just wondering if there was any way I could just get my Big Hard Drive to Recognize the Small Hard Drive. Well hope this isnt too confusin, thx.

 

[Scott Newton]

Have you set the jumpers correctly?

 

[SkylineChiliMan]

Yes I set the jumpers correctly. They are firmly in place and each hard drive is designated to Slave and Master...

 

[SkylineChiliMan]

Anyone have ne ideas??

 

[Pretty Cool]

Does your bios recognize the smaller drive?

Does DOS recognize the smaller drive?

Does Safe Mode recognize the smaller drive?

 

[RickH]

I am not sure--do you have windows installed/copied on both drives?? If both drives have Windows, put the large drive alone a master on the primary IDE and the small drive alone as master on the second IDE. How did you set the drive parameters?? Let the BIOS auto detect them. R.

 

[SkylineChiliMan]

Yes the bios recognizes both when I use the smaller hard drive, the bios also recognizes it when I use the larger one.

 

[GregMal]

I'm not sure what you're attempting to do?
Do you want the new large HD to be your C: drive and the smaller
old drive your D: drive?
Do you just want to copy data files from the old to new drive?
Or do you want to do what I did last weekend? I installed a new
30 gig HD. Fdisked, partitioned, formated. Set up my old 6.4 gig
as slave. Then used special software to copy everything (including
operating system) sector by sector to the new HD. Then removed the
old HD.
Greg