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olorin

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.second hard drive
« on: January 28, 2006, 07:26:06 AM »
I'm very new to this updating thingy.
I have installed a second hard drive in my comp but when i look at "my computer" it doesn't show up.
I wanted to install the second hard drive as i have some very old programs that are DOS based and would like to have the second hard drive formatted  as FAT32 in dos.
My first hard drive is formatted NTFS and runs XP pro.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated as i am like a duck out of water with computer stuff.

GX1_Man

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Re: .second hard drive
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2006, 07:42:04 AM »
The added hard drive must be jumpered as slave and the original hard drive as master (which it probably is) on the same cable. The jumpers are on the back of he drive next to the data cable. What make and model drives are these? What is the computer make/model?

olorin

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Re: .second hard drive
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2006, 02:02:25 AM »
It's a Maxtor diamond maxplus 9, 80gb ata/133 hdd
On the case it says "no jumper = DS Slave" ,so i took the jumper out.
Thanx for your reply

GX1_Man

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Re: .second hard drive
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2006, 04:31:01 AM »
It sounds like you're up and runnning. Please confirm so I can  consider this thread closed.  ;)
« Last Edit: January 30, 2006, 02:04:57 PM by GX1_Man »

olorin

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Re: .second hard drive
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2006, 10:40:02 AM »
Still doesn't find the new hard drive when I start up the comp  :-?

GX1_Man

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Re: .second hard drive
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2006, 02:04:45 PM »
Does it show up in the BIOS? What computer or motherboard make/model?

olorin

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Re: .second hard drive
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2006, 01:16:54 PM »
It shows in the bios  (cmos?)
and it shows as a second hard drive in Hardware when i go to the system menu, but the name of the hard drives are exactly the same, but it doen't show up in "my computer".
I can only see the one hard drive in that.
I know it isn't formatted, as i cant point the computer to it to format it.
The motherboard is a Matsonic MSKM
processor is AMD 2200
Graphics card is radeon 9200E
CPU frequency is 133mhz
Maxtor diamond maxplus 9, 80gb ata/133 hdd