Multiple hard drives - not showing up in my computer

[billybong10]

I am using win 2000, i have 3 hard drives connected. primary master is one of them (6 gig), and 80Gig is the primary slave. the secondary master is the cd rom and the secondary slave is a new hard drive (8Gig). Everything shows up in the hardware profiles as well as the bios, BUT when i go to use the new hard drive i cant see it in my computer, i have no way of accessing the new hard drive. I have set the jumpers on all devices to their appropriate settings ( master / slave ) do i need to do somethign special because i have 3 hard drives now??

Any ideas? Suggestions ?

 

[micker377]

Is the "new" hard drive partitioned and formatted?

 

[wolluf]

just to add to micker's comment - you use disk management to do this in 2k - run diskmgmt.msc.

 

[G0AOZ]

Sometimes an additional drive, even when partitioned and formatted, needs to have a drive letter allocated by W2K. In Disk Management right click on relevant drive, then select "Change drive letter and path...", Edit, and select appropriate drive letter.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[billybong10]

Formatting and setting it as the primary partion in diskmgmt.msc, that was what i needed to do thanks alot guys, problem now is that i couldnt actually format it. I got to 69 % and it stalls every time, I think its a crap hard drive, got it at a garage sale . meh oh well what can you do paid like 5 bucks, hey i heard Fujitsu hard drives had some kind of return policy ? anyone know about this or any way i could fix the hard drive ?

 

[micker377]

What error message (if any) does it give when it "stalls"?

 

[billybong10]

none it just sits there at %69 and the hard drive sounds really weird at that moment. so i end up closing the program and it hangs for a little while, then the program closes.

 

[wolluf]

You could try the fujitsu diagnostic utility -

http://www.fcpa.com/support/hard-drives/software_utilities.html

- you're not going to be able to return the driver for replacement.

Its probably not worth bothering with (likely to cause other problems with your machine if it is faulty).