Well I installed it fine and all. But here is the problem, the computer recognizes (in BIOS) that I have a 2nd hard drive. But in Windows (In My Computer) it only says I have 1 still.
BTW -- when I first booted up the new hardware wizard recognized that I have a 2nd drive, but then Windows crashed.
Any ideas?
Synth
possibly a bad IDE cable, also, could be a bad HDD, , check for anything lose on the drive, like the IDE and Molex Connectors
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Nah the IDE is fine, because thats the same one connecting my boot drive, and would the BIOS recognize the drive if the molex was not in?
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No, the BIOS would not see the drive if it isn't powered. Check the IDE cable, anyway, make sure it is well-seated in the drives and board.
Ensure you have your drives set Master (for original) and Slave (for the new one).
Win won't recognize the new drive in Explorer until it is formatted. To do that, go into your system properties, hardware management (assuming you have Win XP) and right-click to new drive and you should be able to partition and format from there.
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Is the drive partitioned?
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Check the whole length of the ATA cable, I spent half a day trying to figure out what was wrong wtih my hard drive, but when I was cutting a cable tie in my case, i cut the ATA cable too.
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Nah the drive is not partitioned yet or formatted or anything yet.. I am going to go try what Dngrson said.
EDIT: How exactly can I partition the drive? Remember I cannot see it in 'My Computer'
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UPDATE: All connections are nice and tight, and I still cannot see in My computer. I guess it's a bad drive? Or I am completely wrong in how I think you format a drive (i.e. you dont go thru My Computer)
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make a MS-DOS Boot disk on a floppy disk (right click your floppy disk drive and hit format, then select "Creat MS-DOS Boot disk") and boot from it, type Fdisk and follow the directionsm just be sure to format the right HDD
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Hmm thanks... thank god some people know about computers, unlike me... lol!
I am going to try that right now.
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