I have a second hard drive on my secondary computer. I can see the hard drive in the BIOS, but I can't see the drive anywhere in windows. Anyone have any idea how I can get winodws to see this drive?

5/20/2006 9:58:30 PM

Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management (Local)

And play with it.

5/20/2006 10:08:06 PM

what kind of drive

i mean make

[Edited on May 20, 2006 at 10:08 PM. Reason : ]

5/20/2006 10:08:30 PM

^ It's a Maxtor 40GB ATA

^^ I said that it doesn't show up ANYWHERE under windows. i.e. my computer, the device manager, the disk management tool, etc...

5/20/2006 10:13:20 PM

u got the jumpers set right? everything is plugged in correctly?

5/20/2006 10:26:42 PM

There are two harddrives on the channel. The main hard drive is set to CS while the one I'm trying to get window's to see is set to slave at the moment. I had it set to CS earlier but it didn't make a difference. The BIOS correctly identified the drives as primary and secondary.

5/20/2006 10:32:41 PM

anyone have any ideas?

5/21/2006 5:26:28 AM

set the master to jumper setting master.

5/21/2006 8:24:25 AM

^ I'll give it a try. Question though, when I had both drives on CS, the drives were in the correct position on the cable for the proper master slave relationship, should I expect this to work any different?

Failing what you suggested, I'm going to unplug on of the CD drives and put the hard drive on a different channel and see if I have any success. I just don't understand why the BIOS will see the drive when windows will not. Maybe I'll find a linux machine and see if I can't get it to see the drives. Will linux read NTFS?

5/21/2006 2:52:22 PM