new PATA Drive not recognised in XP


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Hello,

I have a computer running XP Home, and I have just tried installing a seconf HDD in the Primary PATA Channel. The original 80Gb Seagate (Master) is recognised by BIOS and XP, but the second (newer) Seagate 80Gb PATA (Slave) is recgnised by BIOS but NOT XP. If I put obe drive on the Secondary channel, Windows sees them both properly, however this is not an option ans I need secondary chennel for sloe DVD drives!

Whats causing this? I have checked the jumper settings, and have also tried cable select. But still no go. The nforce dual channel IDE controller is using the original MS driver that comes with XP (7/1/2001)

Is this a driver issue? Or BIOS setting or what?

Seagate ST380215A 80Gb 7200rpm (Master/Boot)

Seagate ST380011A 80Gb 7200rpm (Slave)

Athlon XP 3000+

nForce2 Ultra 400

768Mb DDR333

GeForce4 Ti4400 se 128Mb RAM

2 x 80Gb 7200rpm HDD

DX 9.0c

nForce: Mix

Windows XP Home SP2

Thanks,

Donald

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Format the drive in Disk Management.

Radish?

All sa:) :)

Go to start/run and type :

compmgmt.msc

press enter, then choose Disk Management, the hard drive should be visible there as unnasigned or something like that

Right click and choose Assign Hard Drive(forgot the rest of the sentence...)

Then format and you?re done.

Sorry for poor englis:sm8 :s

  • 2 weeks later...

On bootup check in the bios, does the bios see the drive?

depending on a yes or no

yes: check in device properties, see if windows has assigned a driver to the device, or see if the controller is disabled

no: upgrade the bios if there is an upgrade, re-check the jumper settings, force one to be a master, the other a slave if there are 2 drives on the same cable.

If that doesn't solve the bios problem give me your motherboard make and version.

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