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General Category => Hardware => Topic started by: Anonymous on September 06, 2002, 11:30:40 AM

Title: XP Home not recognising my second HD?
Post by: Anonymous on September 06, 2002, 11:30:40 AM

Hi,

I have recently had to replace my primary HD and reinstall windows XP Home. All is now working well except that XP does not recognise that I have a second HD installed (which was working well before).

It is however recognised in Hardware Profile but the Device Usage drop down is greyed out.

My question is how do I get the second HD up and running properly?

Many thanks.

Title: XP Home not recognising my second HD?
Post by: rdc on September 07, 2002, 06:15:41 AM

Did you set it up(jumpers on the harddisk) as a slave , as it was set up as a master before .

Title: XP Home not recognising my second HD?
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2002, 10:31:33 AM

Try formating the HD.  If the drive is unformatted, system will see it, but the OS won\'t recognize it.

Title: XP Home not recognising my second HD?
Post by: Guest on October 18, 2003, 09:02:04 AM

I agree with rdc, try setting your jumpers to SLAVE and is it connected properly ( pin 1 to pin 1 )

or try putting your 2nd HD on the IDE2 controller

Title: XP Home not recognising my second HD?
Post by: A+Net+MCP on October 18, 2003, 06:52:23 PM

RDC is right. Also check in BIOS to see if the second HD is recognised there. If not it is not installed right.