I'm running WinXP Pro with a 1.15 ghtz processor, 515 mb of ram a 60 gb hard drive and a cd drive. i want to add another 30 gig drive to my compouter for storage, but when i turn my computer on, it doesn't recognize the drive. help please!
um, i'm unsure of the drives make, i don't have it with me right now, it's at my dad's place. however, i do know that it is a secondary ide, not slave
if drive is by itself & the ide cable is not in reverse then it looks like that is a western digital drive so remove the jumper if jumpered as master, slave or cable select. other possibility is that the computer is a dell so jumper the drive as cable select.
jumper? i'm not sure what that means i know my computer isn't a dell though, its a home made computer i got from my uncle
even tho for rom drives, it still applies for ide hard drives. http://webpages.charter.net/bacitup/TheGuides/Jumper Settings for your Drive.pdf
won't know till you try it. also it is the computer that is not seeing the drive & not windows, correct?
then that is a different problem. most likely the drive is not partitioned & formated, correct. read this link tho for seagate, it applies to other manufacturers too. http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=559e5b1142aec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD
Don't forget, you can right click on the drive in disk manager and then go "change drive letter and paths" to force it to use another letter. Sometimes windows assigns drives letters that are already being used, so they don't show up.
