Hello everyone sorry to be asking for help on my first post but frankly I am going a bit nuts here. I recently had to re-install windows xp and in doing I chose to upgrade to a bigger drive. However here is where my promblem seems to begin. Prior to the re-install I had a extra drive, for my music, pictures etc (aka the stuff I would not want in the windows drive) and that drive was working just fine. The drive I installed windows on is the EXACT same model/make drive as the storage drive I just mentioned. Currently windows will only see the drive the OS is on, however if I check in device manager, disk manager etc the 2nd drive does show up. I have even gone as far as using the windows trouble shooter, and in doing so I may have kinda found that the problem maybe the fact that both drives have the same SCSI ID? Thing I have no clue how to go about fixing that. I know enough to get me through most problems but I am stumped here. If screen shots are needed please tell me I will provide them. thank you in advanced.
try setting the jumpers on the hdd to slave. if the jumpers are not set right that could cause it not to show up in windows. instructions for where to put the jumper should be on the hdd label.
Jumpers are set right, tried both on cable select as primary slave and secondary mater, then tried setting the jumpers to the specific position on the cable (primary slave, or secondary master). Currently I'm not on that machine, but tomorrow I will post a few screen caps of what I'm seeing exactly in windows, and even some cam shots I took of my bios set up screens. I admit in not totally in the know but im not a total noob either (I mean that with no disrepct to anyone)so this don't seem right
is the hard drive formatted? because it sounds like it's not, since it appears in disk management but not in windows.
First off thank you to both of you who are trying to help me I really really appreciate it very much. Yep it's formatted, Previously this drive (the one not being detected) was a extra(storage etc) Drive. It has all my mp3s, pics etc that I would never dump into the same drive as windows. I have the same exact hardware set up as I did before I had to reinstall windows. Only new addition is the drive with the OS all else is the same, and yes It was formatted under XP as well. Thinking back to the process of updating windows and blah blah I was not too "hot" on what nvidia's site said were the updated drivers for my motherboard (Nforce 2), so i may uninstall those and just use the ones that came with the motherboard disc again. I will edit this in a bit with what screenshots I have of this mess and again thank you.
Would it be a somewhat decent idea to just plop some cash on a usb enclosure and seeing if this drives works like that? I'm asking this now since it seems windows has no problem detecting any usb drives I got laying around? (yea i know I should have backed up even my storage drive but i was working on a very very small budget before all this) So far it's detected 2 psps, a few usb memeory sticks and a small 4gig usb drive, without an issue. GOt this idea after I read another thread here.
