biohazard 0 Posted October 17, 2001 hi guys,im new to the forum.but have been reading it last few days and gained some useful things,now...i REALLY need ur help..i bought a new drive today WD 40 gig..and am going to use my maxtor 13 gig to store stuff on and to take it out to transfer stuff from work to home..heres the problem..BIOS detects both drives no probs..but XP doesnt show 2nd drive.i have WD set as master,and maxtor as slave..both on 80 pin IDE ribbon udma 100..i installed the WD drive as slave to begin with,so i could copy all the info from original drive to it so as to make it the master/boot drive..which worked fine..WD is master,and boots and has everything exactly as original drive did..i have tried every jumper setting possible..still no go..plz help,thx in advance Share this post Link to post
TaoArcher 0 Posted October 17, 2001 Does the WindowsXP disk manager see it? If so, you need to just remove the partition and create a new one. If not, i dont know. Share this post Link to post
AndyFair 0 Posted October 17, 2001 Also make sure you have the ribbon cable plugged in correctly - the blue connector should be plugged into the motherboard/controller. Rgds AndyF Share this post Link to post
biohazard 0 Posted October 17, 2001 well guys,i found out what was wrong..awhile back i had set the primary ide channel to none on the 2nd device.being i didnt have a 2nd device on that ribbon..thinking that would help speed up boot..so i caught it today when i had more time to look thru system...so it was USER ERROR :(thx for ur repsonses guys Share this post Link to post
