cant use my new hdd

[stafin]

ive just bought a new hdd, i had trouble getting fat32 to recognise it - i had to unplug my original hdd, and load up with the new one as master. but when i plugged in my original one and loaded up i still cant see it in explorer, and it isnt found in add new hardware. its set up fine in bios, that shows both hdds fine. ne ideas of wot i need to do?

[Mshaw213]

Have you partitioned the drive? If you go to the command prompt, type FDISK and then press 5 to change the physical drive. Once you have chosen the second drive press 4 to display the partition information.

What does this show?

[stafin]

i dont have 5 as an option only 1-4.

[Imperion1]

Set the new drive up as a Primary Slave or Secondary Master or Secondary Slave.
Boot to the boot disk. Go to fdisk, option 5 should be there with both hard drives attached correctly.

[stafin]

my hdd is set up as primary slave. thats wot i see in the bios, but i still haven't got an option 5 in fdisk. this is probably cos windows still dont recognise my new hdd.

[Imperion1]

Fdisk is run in Dos not windows.
To run fdisk you have to boot to Dos mode with a boot floppy.

Are the jumpers on the drives set correctly? One Master, one Slave?
Another question, when you fdisked the new drive as master did you make it a primary partition?

[stafin]

the drive jumpers are correct. yes i did make a primary partition.

[Imperion1]

That could be your problem then. Run fdisk on the new drive again, remove the primary partition. You don't need a primary partition if the New drive is gonna be a slave.
Set up the old drive as Primary Master, New drive as Primary Slave, run fdisk. Set the new drive as an extended drive then logical.

[stafin]

removed all partitions, still no option 5. bugger.

[stafin]

ive got it sorted now :)
the problem was in bios, although the hdd was recognised, i didnt check the second menu level, and the detection was set to none rather than auto. thanks for your help in sorting it out tho people.