At 11:24 AM 1/31/2008, White, Bruce wrote: >I recently installed a second h/d on my pc and it is not reconizing it >also it not in the BIOS. It is not a new drive and I checked the >settings and the jumpers were set. Any guesses?
Loose data or power cable? If the motherboard and data cable support "cable select" (CS), then both drives should be jumpered CS. If not, then they should be jumpered 1) master, and 2) slave. If the first drive was jumpered "single", then you would have to change it to "master". With Western Digital drives, "single" is generally no jumper, or with the jumper "parked" (jumper is horizontal, across two pins on the ground side). Some brands/models of drives are just incompatible. Make sure that the bios is changed to change recognition of the second drive from "none" to "autodetect" (or similar wording). When no drive is present, its position is generally set to "none" in order to speed up the boot process, i.e., there is no wait for a drive to initialize when the bios says "none." You said it is not a new drive. If it has a partition that Windows doesn't understand, it won't show up in "My computer." What does disk management show? (run diskmgmt.msc) Fred Holmes ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
