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What am I doing wrong? HDD wont install.

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I bought one of those western digital hard drives from best buy yesterday, the 80GB one for $16. I was replacing an old western digital 3GB drive. I pulled the old drive out and put the 80GB drive in and the computer is not finding it. I have it hooked up to a Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 adapter card with a western digital 10GB hard drive first on the cable and the 80GB drive last. They are both set as slaves. What am I doing wrong here?

I'm running windows XP pro, just in case you need to know.
 
What do I set it at then? Both original drives were set as slaves and have been in my system for about two years. I only have the adapter card in there so I can have extra drives in the computer for storage. My main HDD is a Maxtor 120GB and the secondary drive on that cable is a western digital 80GB, not the one I just bought, an old one I already had. So my current system is set up like this...

Motherboard
120GB main drive with windows on it.
80GB storage
CD Burner
DVD rom drive

Maxtor adapter card:
10GB storage
3GB storage (the one I want to replace with my new 80GB drive)

I haven't put in a new drive in a long time. I thought it was just plug it in and it should be there. Is there something I'm missing here?
 
On each IDE cable where 2 devices are attached, the jumpers on the back of the devices must be set so that one is set master, one is set slave.

Look at the back of the new 80 and old 10, and see how there jumpers are set. Fix one.
 
I set the new 80GB as master and the computer still doesn't find it. I rechecked my old 3GB drive and it's set as slave and so is the 10GB, I've never changed those and they used to work together. This doesn't make any sense to me. 😕

The new drive is powering up and I can feel it running.
 
Try connecting just the new drive with the ribbon cable, instead of both drives.

Check that you don't have extra jumpers installed on the new drive, once in awhile drives ship out with a "factory test" jumper still installed.
 
I got it to work. I used the CD that the drive came with, Data Lifeguard Tools. It scanned the computer and found the drive and asked if I wanted to activate the drive. I've never had to do this with any other drive I've put in here, strange. Anyway, thanks for your help, DaveSimmons. It works and now I have 80GB more of storage, sweet! 😀

all this for $16 🙂
 
D'oh! I assumed you were saying it didn't show up in the Power On Self Test displays (on the Maxtor controller screen) before Windows, not that it was just missing in Windows.

Oh well, it's working now, life is good 🙂
 
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