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WayneD
06-09-2002, 10:51 PM
Just installed a new HDD as primary master and existing as primary slave....in BIOS see both drives correctly shown as master/slave. I cannot see the slave drives only see the new c:\ drive....any thoughts. Now in process of inputting all software what a job, if I could see the slave I could stop HELP>>>>>>
bluemoon
06-10-2002, 12:20 AM
I suppose your slave drive used to be the boot drive?
If so,I would try to make your slave drive as a boot drive from within your bios.Then your new drive would become the slave.Of course you need to set you hdd jumpers accordingly if they were not already set to cable select.

Edit: then your new drive would become D drive
BipolarBill
06-10-2002, 04:15 AM
If you are using Win2K/XP, you just assign the old drive a letter in Disk Management (DISKMGMT.MSC).
WayneD
06-10-2002, 10:58 PM
I figured out the problem.....

ME as an fat32 file system will not recognize a NTFS system file which the original drive was. On doing an FDisk at the command prompt I could see the new E: and F: drives on the WD HDD but ME would not recognize them. On loading Windows XP to the new drive and converting the file system to NTFS ......voila I now see the E: and F: drives.