Unable to see second hard disk

[toratora]

I have installed a second 80 gig hard drive in my PIII machine. The BIOS detsects it, but I cannot see it at all in win 2000 - I have tried disk manager, searching for new hardware etc...

Initially I set it as slave to a DVD reare/writer on the secondary ide, but had some problems so I have changed it to being the primary on the secondary ide - this is all detected in BIOS and the machine boots to win 2000. But I still can't see the second drive. CAn anyone please help?

toratora

[toratora]

I have solved the problem.

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Originally Posted by toratora

I have installed a second 80 gig hard drive in my PIII machine. The BIOS detsects it, but I cannot see it at all in win 2000 - I have tried disk manager, searching for new hardware etc...

Initially I set it as slave to a DVD reare/writer on the secondary ide, but had some problems so I have changed it to being the primary on the secondary ide - this is all detected in BIOS and the machine boots to win 2000. But I still can't see the second drive. CAn anyone please help?

toratora

[dogbreath]

Hi toratora. There's dozens of threads on the boards at the moment regarding second drives not being seen. Many of these threads don't seem to reach a satisfactory conclusion. In fact I have a similar problem at the moment. It's great to see that you solved your problem but how exactly did you do it?

[Cache]

dogbreath,
if you havent already then format the second HDD using the same file system as your OS and see if that helps.

[dogbreath]

Thanks cache. Any help is really welcome. As it happens, all drives/partitions are formatted NTFS. Yesterday, I took some advice of another tech. forum regarding trying to 'see' the ext. hdd whilst in Safe Mode. I did this and posted the following reply to that thread... it may shed some light on what the underlying problem has been. " Bris. Booted into safe mode. Powered up ext. hhd.. Immediately visible in Device Manager (under Disks and USB Mass Storage Device). Not visible in Disk Management and My Computer. Disks visible everywhere were Disk 0 (partitioned C: and E: (logical drive)) and Disk 1 (H: which is the card reader in an HP all-in-one printer etc. etc.). Went into Event Viewer>System Log- lot's of errors and warnings which were disk related (numbered 7, 11, 51). Rebooted to a standard start to obtain the internet connection to check out the error codes, and the ext. hdd, which had been left powered up between the safe mode session and reboot, was seen everywhere and instantly. The read/write light is off which is how it used to be on first install when it worked fine. It reads- Disk Management:- Disk 1 Basic 149.05GB NTFS On-line "LACIE" (G Healthy, Device Manager:- WDC WD1600JB-00GVA0 USB Device (inc. an entry under USB Mass Storage Device) and in My Computer:- LACIE (G. It would be very pleasing if this occurred on every reboot! From what I've described above, has anyone any ideas as to what the problem is/was. Oh, and thanks again Bris for resurrecting the thread." I'll now have to see whether it remains visible. Incidentally, I didn't turn on the hdd this morning so I don't yet know whether it's still visible.

[dogbreath]

Apologies for the smilies which have appeared by coincidence. The other forum doesn't support smilies so I could use C : ) without it being misinterpreted.

[dnchari]

Originally Posted by Cache

dogbreath,
if you havent already then format the second HDD using the same file system as your OS and see if that helps.

when i don't see it in my computer...how can I format...could you please explain...if there is any other way