IDE drives

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Plaurence

I need HELP
Three IDE drives installed on XP pro.
I replaced the primary drive, a Maxtor 60GB with a Maxtor
80 GB. After installing XP pro, The Pri slave and
secondary skave are not coming uo in "My Computer window".
The BIOS confirms the presence of the drives as does the
device manager.
 
Hi,

If you have 3 harddisk, the normal setting should be:
Primary IDE channel - the first HDD should be primary master and the 2nd HDD is primary slave
Secondary IDE channel - the 3rd HDD should be secondary master (instead of what you said is secondary slave)
Make sure you have set the jumpers correctly and must use the 40 Pin 80 conductor flat ribbon cables.
Check from the BIOS that all the HDDs are showed as described.
If all the settings and connections are OK, right click My Computer/manage/disk management.
In the lower part of the right pane, the other 2 HDDs should be shown. Hightlight the HDD (one at each time) and right click then select and click initialize disk, click apply and OK.
After reboot, you should be able to see the other drives in My Computer.

Hope it helps.

Peter


----- Plaurence wrote: -----

I need HELP
Three IDE drives installed on XP pro.
I replaced the primary drive, a Maxtor 60GB with a Maxtor
80 GB. After installing XP pro, The Pri slave and
secondary skave are not coming uo in "My Computer window".
The BIOS confirms the presence of the drives as does the
device manager.
 
Also, with some drives, you may have to use a jumper in order to tell the
primary hard drive that a slave drive is connected to the same cable.

Y.


Peter said:
Hi,

If you have 3 harddisk, the normal setting should be:
Primary IDE channel - the first HDD should be primary master and the 2nd HDD is primary slave
Secondary IDE channel - the 3rd HDD should be secondary master (instead of
Click to expand...
what you said is secondary slave)
Make sure you have set the jumpers correctly and must use the 40 Pin 80 conductor flat ribbon cables.
Check from the BIOS that all the HDDs are showed as described.
If all the settings and connections are OK, right click My
Click to expand...
Computer/manage/disk management.
In the lower part of the right pane, the other 2 HDDs should be shown.
Click to expand...
Hightlight the HDD (one at each time) and right click then select and click
initialize disk, click apply and OK.
 
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