installing second hardrive

[johnnyv]

I have a problem installing a second hdd. I currently have a hdd that is running win2000. It is setup as my primary master. I have just put a second hdd in my computer. I have connected using the same cable that the primary drive uses. The jumpers on the second drive are set to 'slave'. when I stsart the computer it finds the second drive as a slave but when I enter my computer from the desk top I do not see the second drive.

Why ?

What have I forgotten to do?

 

[johnnyv]

To answer my own question in an attempt to help other newbies like me. If I am incorrect in any way please correct me. Here we go

1) enter computer management from administrative tools
2) enter disk management
3) I then right clicked on the drive in question. In my
case my 'good, primary drive' was drive zero and the
drive I was having trouble with was drive 1. It was
showing as online and unallocated.
4) select create a primary partition
5) this should allow you to select a drive letter
and 'setup' the drive for use
6) you may have to format the drive. I was unable to do
this from disk management. When I tried I recieved a msg
telling me that the drive was in use.
7) To format the drive I went to my computer and left
clicked the drive. I recieved a msg telling me that the
drive was unformatted and was asked if I wanted to
format the drive I replyed yes.


again I am new to this process so any comments would be helpful

thanks

 

[cdogg]

What is on the second harddrive? Does it have an OS installed on it as well? What file system does it use (FAT32, NTFS, etc.)? Make sure there aren't any drive letter restrictions in Win2K and try changing the drive letter for your CDROM to something other than D. ~cdogg
"We park in driveways but drive in parkways?"

 

[johnnyv]

thanks for the reply cdogg but I think I figured it out see above post

thanks again

 

[Marinda]

I just purchased a 2nd hard disk and it won't detect in the bios. Should it? are all harddrives plug and detect?
its a seagate 60gig Ive taken off the jumper to set it as a slave connected the power and ide cable red strip to power side. (im running 2000) do i need to do any thing in dos? can i do it all from windows?

 

[wolluf]

Have you set the relevant entry in the bios to auto detect (eg, Award bioses will have a list of the 4 (normally) IDE devices, which can be set to Auto, Manual or None - ie, auto detect, manually supplied settings or not present. Your slave drive may be set to None - in which case the bios wouldn't look for it). It should be automatically detected.

PS. As you're running 2000 - can you see it from Disk Management (2000 ignores the bios settings and should see the drive even if set to none in the bios).