in my computer i have 2 hard drive both western digital. one of those hard drives was an external usb drive. i resently took it out of the case and put it in my computer. now here comes the problem. when my computer boots it wont recognize both hard drives but when one is in at a time it recognize the hard drive and boots. i have even tried to plug it in when i had windows running (not the smartest thing). i would love to get both of my hard drives to work Thanks (i did have an os installed on the usb drive but i used a hard drive wiping boot cd)
you are not saying .. but am gonna assume you have Windows XP -- It is much easier for people to help you when you give your O/S details. Right click My Computer -- select Manage -> Double click Disk Management on Left Side..and look if your 2 drives are being seen .. and what conditions they are in. From there you can format... create partitions... ect..... to make them active.
ya i do have windows xp i think u missed a part or i didnt put it in but i cant have both hard drives connected it wont boot with both hard drives connected at the moment i only have one hard drive connected. thanks
My answer was to correct this ! But if you are happy with one drive.. it's your PC ! Boot in Safe Mode !
check the jumper configuration on both drives if on same cable so that they are jumpered differently as in master & slave.
check the jumpers the muster hard drive on place 5 and 6 and the slave one has to be on 3th and 4th place from the power cable i think couse i had the same problem
I wanted to chime in on this because it's of interest to me. I've got a Compaq Presario 5000US AMD Duron 750MB, with 256MB SD-RAM and a 30GB HDD running Windows ME. I want to remove it from that computer and add it to the one in my sig. Is this possible? Are there any drawbacks? I assume I'd just follow the info in this thread. I'm having 'no video on monitor' problems with that one and I want move the data on it to the Dell. I'll then put it back in the Presario and continue to work on the video problem. Thanks to all, in advance, for your assistance. Oh, one more thing, if this is possible, will Windows XP automatically assign a drive letter to that drive or is it done manually and if so how do I do that?
yes as long as slave on primary ide or master or slave on secondary ide. did that on a customer's computer using my drive to safe her info, blow out her drive, reloaded windows & copied her info back onto her drive.
@ iani_2006 That's correct. I don't have display on the monitor. The PC loads up as usual but no monitor. I've tried re-seating the Video Card, I tried changing monitors. I bought a new RAM card (which gave me my monitor back, but the pc later froze and during restart, I again had no picture). I read something which suggested resetting the BIOS, but can't do that, if you can't see what you're doing. So that's why I'm pulling the hard drive and putting on my other pc to get the info from it, then put it back in the old pc and continue working on the no display problem.
