Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: Barefoot_Tom on December 08, 2006, 08:23:09 AM
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I'm attempting to install a new 2nd hard drive, and am having problems.
The drive I'm installing is a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 - 80 gig. I am using WIN 2000 as my OS.
When I boot, the BIOS recognizes the drive and identifies it correctly. Windows however doesn't recognize that the drive is there.
What am I overlooking?
Tom
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How do you have your jumpers set? You said this is a second hard drive, is this new one a slave?
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How do you have your jumpers set? You said this is a second hard drive, is this new one a slave?
The jumpers are set for a slave, and the BIOS recognizes it as such.
Tom
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I assume you've formatted and partitioned the drive?
If not, you might want to do that.
If you have, go into your Computer Management MMC by right-clicking My Computer and choosing manage. In the left pane, choose Disk Management. If your drive shows up in there, right-click it and choose "Initialize."
This is a shot in the dark, but it may work.
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I assume you've formatted and partitioned the drive?
If not, you might want to do that.
If you have, go into your Computer Management MMC by right-clicking My Computer and choosing manage. In the left pane, choose Disk Management. If your drive shows up in there, right-click it and choose "Initialize."
This is a shot in the dark, but it may work.
I don't know whether the drive has been formatted. How does one format a drive which the OS won't recognize? FDISk doesn't work in WIN2000.
I checked Disk Management, and the drive is not recognized there. Only the BIOS knows it exists.
Tom
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...I don't know whether the drive has been formatted. How does one format a drive which the OS won't recognize? FDISk doesn't work in WIN2000...[/quote]
Use your Windows 2000 CD to boot to the Recovery Console and format the hard drive:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313672
Even if the file system on the hard drive is currently NTFS, the FDISK and FORMAT commands will work with a Windows Me bootable floppy disk:
http://bootdisk.com/
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Use your Windows 2000 CD to boot to the Recovery Console and format the hard drive:
Thanks for the info. That looks like it should work. I've discovered another way to go, though. I went to the Maxtor home site, downloaded 2 programs which let me make a boot disk, analyze the new drive, and format and partition it.
Problem solved (I think).
Tahnks for all the help and suggestions, though.
Tom