Another thing to consider is that mobos only 3 years old or so will have SATA I support, but may not recognize SATA II drives, even though they are supposed to be backwards compatible. I've been burned by this.
It's very hard to find SATA I drives any longer. > -----Original Message----- > 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) ************************************************************************ * ==> 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 ************************************************************************
