XP does not see my second harddisk

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I wonder if anyone can help me out on this one!

I have installed a second hard disc in my Athlon run XP system. The bios
recognises this drive fine, but XP does not even know its there. I
have swapped the drive with the CD drive and DVD drive on the othr
channel, I have set and unset jumpers for master/slave configuration
thousands of times and still no luck. Even the disk management module
cannot pick it up. I believe the drive is working fine as I removed it
from my Win98 system and replaced it here.

Can anyone help?

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If your bios sees the drive, but not XP, that is strange. Go into disk
management and try to scroll down or up. I have had drives installed but
not show up in MY COMPUTER until I formatted them with disk management, but
in disk management I needed to scroll down to see the disk. Maybe you are
in the same situation?

Also, you may try booting with a win98 floppy to see if you can in fact
access the drive. You said BIOS sees the drive but then you also say you
tried changing master/slave settings many times. Just set it up so the BIOS
sees it and leave it alone, making too many changes doesn't help.

1. Get the bios to see the drive-then leave the jumpers alone.
2. Boot with win98 floppy, make sure you can use the drive
3. THEN boot to XP and see what happens-do the scrolling thing I typed above
in disk management.

--Dan
 
I wonder if anyone can help me out on this one!
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I have installed a second hard disc in my Athlon run XP system.
The bios recognises this drive fine, but XP does not even know its there.
I have swapped the drive with the CD drive and DVD drive on the othr
channel, I have set and unset jumpers for master/slave configuration
thousands of times and still no luck. Even the disk management module
cannot pick it up. I believe the drive is working fine as I removed it
from my Win98 system and replaced it here.
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Can anyone help?
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Try scanning for new hardware in XP.
Then check if its visible in disk management.
 
dg said:
If your bios sees the drive, but not XP, that is strange. Go into disk
management and try to scroll down or up. I have had drives installed but
not show up in MY COMPUTER until I formatted them with disk management, but
in disk management I needed to scroll down to see the disk. Maybe you are
in the same situation?

Also, you may try booting with a win98 floppy to see if you can in fact
access the drive. You said BIOS sees the drive but then you also say you
tried changing master/slave settings many times. Just set it up so the BIOS
sees it and leave it alone, making too many changes doesn't help.

1. Get the bios to see the drive-then leave the jumpers alone.
2. Boot with win98 floppy, make sure you can use the drive
3. THEN boot to XP and see what happens-do the scrolling thing I typed above
in disk management.

--Dan
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I have already tried to boot with win98 floppy, and that gives me a
whole host of other problems!! When I fdisk, both the drives are there,
but only the fat 32 partitions showed up. The ntfs partitions do not.
After i have finished with fdisk and reboot with the floppy, the same
drive configuration comes up.

Oh and by the way, the drive also appears in the device manager!

Thanks for the other info though

Tanuj
 
I have already tried to boot with win98 floppy,
and that gives me a whole host of other problems!!
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Nope, this isnt a problem, just what is expected.
When I fdisk, both the drives are there,
but only the fat 32 partitions showed up.
The ntfs partitions do not.
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Thats normal, the dos on that win98 startup floppy doesnt support ntfs.
After i have finished with fdisk and reboot with the
floppy, the same drive configuration comes up.
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Oh and by the way, the drive also appears in the device manager!
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Presumably you arent using disk management properly
or the XP install has got considerably screwed up somehow.
 
Rod said:
Nope, this isnt a problem, just what is expected.




Thats normal, the dos on that win98 startup floppy doesnt support ntfs.




Presumably you arent using disk management properly
or the XP install has got considerably screwed up somehow.
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Thanks anyhow, it seems i will have to maybe reistall XP from scratch again.
 
I wonder if anyone can help me out on this one!

I have installed a second hard disc in my Athlon run XP system. The bios
recognises this drive fine, but XP does not even know its there. I
have swapped the drive with the CD drive and DVD drive on the othr
channel, I have set and unset jumpers for master/slave configuration
thousands of times and still no luck. Even the disk management module
cannot pick it up. I believe the drive is working fine as I removed it
from my Win98 system and replaced it here.

Can anyone help?

DO NOT EMAIL ME ON THE ABOVE ADDRESS BUT INSTEAD USE (e-mail address removed)
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i've had one issue like this... does the drive have 'drive overlay'
software on it? (ie.. easy bios) that would make it not seen as an
accessable drive, but it would still be seen as a piece of hardware
(device mangler and bios)
 
OverKlocker said:
i've had one issue like this... does the drive have 'drive overlay'
software on it? (ie.. easy bios) that would make it not seen as an
accessable drive, but it would still be seen as a piece of hardware
(device mangler and bios)
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I really do not know if there is 'drive overlay'. How would I be able to
find out?

Tanuj
 
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