hi, i am having problems connecting a 2nd habd hdd. i have already tried making my old drive mater and new 1 slave, but windows will not pick up the new hdd. ive also changed the boot settings to boot from master, and in the ide device settings , i can see the new hdd, but still no new harware in windows

why wont windows pick it up. (windows xp pro)

thanks
wade

Hi wade,

Sounds like the master/slave jumpers are not correctly set.

Is you HD attached to the same cable of the primary master, or is it on another one ?

Chris

hi

no, ive had to make it slave, cuase if my dvd and cd-rom are in slave, for some reason my screen wont turn on. everything boots, fans run and hdd spins ,but no video signal to monitor. so current settins are:

pri master:cd-rom
pri slave:dvd
sec master: hdd 1
sec slave: hdd 2
do you think i have gone about the wrong way of doing this

hdd's are on the same cable and the jumpers r set to pri(old) and slave(new)

Ok,

So you do have your two hdd attached to the same flat cable.

Disconnect the slave hdd and try to boot.

Check the slave (disconnected) hdd jumpers. Normally, although ancient hdd will need it, slave HDD will need no jumpers, so, remove if any.

Shut down and reconnect the hdd.

Check if, on POST screen, you have all four devices listed (primary master, primary slave, secondary master and secondary slave).

If not, enter your BIOS settings and set primary slave to "auto"

Post back with results.

Chris

ok, no luck

i took the jumper that was set on slave out, connected the new hd and booted. in the bios is says not installed so on next boot i changed it to auto. then on another reboot on load up the sec slave was not detected.

could it be the cable itself, and i have these setiings on diables:PCI IDE Busmaster & S.M.A.R.T for harddisks , do i need these on abled

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Disconnect the slave hdd and try to boot.

does the system boot normally when you do this ?

You new (second hand) hdd may be dead or is not compatible with your controller...

Can you post your motherboard and both hdd make and model ?

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i have these setiings on diables:PCI IDE Busmaster & S.M.A.R.T for harddisks

You can try to enable them, just to see what happens

yes, systems boots normally without 2nd hd.

mobo is ASUS K7VM4 and hd is Western Digital 205AA

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Western Digital 205AA

good ole "Caviar" ATA hdd.
And the other one ?

maxtor : diamondMax Plus 8

OK, no compatibility problems between them. Your mobo is ASROCK K7VM4 and does not exist on ASUS website.

You may take a look at the link below, just to be sure that the Caviar disk is properly jumpered as slave:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/ph...li=&p_topview=1

Chris

sorry ,yeah the mobo is asrock, my old 1 was asus
well, ive put the new hd as slave slave as it was, ive also changed IDE cable, rechecked bios settings and still nothing. and when i try to add hardware my pc restarts itself.

i just dont understand this

QUOTE (wade @ Aug 5 2005, 07:53 AM)

hi no, ive had to make it slave, cuase if my dvd and cd-rom are in slave, for some reason my screen wont turn on.

This definitely indicates some sort of hardware problem. You should be able to place the drives in any configuration you want and still get video.
If possible, swap out the optical drives with a known good one (or try them one at a time).

It might also be something glitchy with your mobo.

It could be coincidence, but I would think that both issues have one cause.

hi, couldnt it be that the hd is stuffed??

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yes, systems boots normally without 2nd hd.

Unfortunately, I'll think that the Caviar 2nd hand hdd is dead. Can you try it on another system ?

no, the only other system i have in the house is a laptop. im just gonna get another hd and try that.

thanks for all ur help