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i have two hard drives master and slave windows will not recognise the slave
its there in the bios but can not access it HELP PLEASE
 
JAXOM said:
i have two hard drives master and slave windows will not recognise the
slave its there in the bios but can not access it HELP PLEASE
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Is the drive partitioned and formatted? Does the drive show up in Disk
Management (Administrative Tools>Computer Management)? Was it ever
recognized? More details will get you a more focused answer.

Malke
 
JAXOM said:
i have two hard drives master and slave windows will not recognise the
slave
its there in the bios but can not access it HELP PLEASE
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In addition to Malke's questions, was the drive a dynamic drive under XP Pro
at one time? If so and you are using a Home edition of Vista it will not
see it. You need to import the drive.
 
Colin Barnhorst said:
In addition to Malke's questions, was the drive a dynamic drive under XP
Pro at one time? If so and you are using a Home edition of Vista it will
not see it. You need to import the drive.
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Colin, I'm interested in your comments, could you please elaborate.
Reading newsgroups and asking questions is my way of learning.
1 What do you mean by "dynamic" drive and Vista Home won't see it?
I know the 'Basic' flavor of Vista is not worth the trouble of getting it
but you surprise me
in saying that it won't recognize the drive.
And finally, "import the drive", what is that all about.
Sorry if my post sounds a bit lame.
Regards,
Mickey

JAXOM
From what you've said it appears you're using IDE drives, and in
conjunction with whats already been said
you might like to also consider the following which may/may not help you.
Sometimes it's the most simplest things.
I've just installed a second harddrive (500gig) for a friend running XP
Home. Installed, formatted and partitioned to D: E: & F: All went fine with
no problems. However, although accessing the new drives was no problem,
when my friend took his computer home there was no access to the new drives
an no boot up (black screen). After doing more work on the machine it
appears to be a faulty power connector. To test this I swapped the power
connector with the one on his graphics cards and the machine booted ok but
the graphic card indicated it was now operating on reduced power. So have a
look at the connectors. Could be as simple as that.

Mickey
 
Mickey Mouse said:
Colin, I'm interested in your comments, could you please elaborate.
Reading newsgroups and asking questions is my way of learning.
1 What do you mean by "dynamic" drive and Vista Home won't see it?
I know the 'Basic' flavor of Vista is not worth the trouble of getting it
but you surprise me
in saying that it won't recognize the drive.
And finally, "import the drive", what is that all about.
Sorry if my post sounds a bit lame.
Regards,
Mickey
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This pertains to XP but applies to Vista as well:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309044

Explore the References section too. It is a pretty good education in Basic
and Dynamic disks.
 
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