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"Adding a second hard drive"

Arrggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Put a second hard disk in my PC, that is running win me. The second (new) hard disk already has data on it that i want to keep. The hard disk shows up in the bios settings fine, but windows can't seem to recognize it? any ideas? cheers

did you partition the new drive? Until you do this DOS and your OS won't recognise the new hard disk. You PC should allow this to be done automatically, if not though you should get info in the manual for the hard disk and on the website for the company.

I think :-)

DMA is direct memory access isn't it. Not sure exactly how you would go about this. I seem to remember when I added my slave drive it didn't appear. I'm trying to think what it could be. I'll get back to you.

okay so i have set all the jumpers correctly, one to slave and one to master. checked the cables. re-booted, gone in the the bios and checked both hard disks are there. they are both there, one as slave and one as master (as i want them) - then exited bios to windows, and yet the second drive fails to show up in windows explorer. i know that both drives definatly work.

by the way, do you know what DMA is?

What have you done, may seem stupid question but what have you done so far to install it.

the master is a maxtor diamond, the slave is a seagate... help!!!!!

What make of hard-drive is it?

I'm only saying this because I had a particularly stubborn IBM deskstar drive that DOS recognised but Windows wouldn't. Windows finally recognised the drive after formatting my original hard-disk. So if it's an IBM drive you're playing with fire I tell ya.

no luck - it still don't wanna know....

Have you re-booted windows yet? To ensure the drives are recognised by windows and aren't given the same letterings?
I think that is what you have to do.

yeah, already sorted the jumper settings. Im sure there is something you have to do in windows to do with the drive letters in order for windows to recognize it. can't remeber what it is though :(

Darkus wrote:
> Arrggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Put a second hard disk in my PC, that is running win me.
> The second (new) hard disk already has data on it that i want to keep. The hard
> disk shows up in the bios settings fine, but windows can't seem to recognize it?
> any ideas? cheers

sorry if youve already done this. But have you set up one hard disk as the slave and the other as the master this would stop it from recognising it. The one which you want to be the main one will already be the master hard disk but you will need to change the jumper physically on the hard disk to set it as the slave on the one which you do not want it to boot windows from. i suspect you just need to set one as the slave by changing its jumper setting (remove the little plastic thing which is an oblong with 2 pins stuck in it which should be located newt to where the ide cable plugs into the HD. set this to slave (slave location will be in the manual or on the disk itself. If you can't find it just try them all. hope this helps