Hard Drive?

[mahleumon]

I just installed a 80gig maxtor harddrive onto the slave position of my computer. The master is a 30 gig maxtor drive which is working fine. I have placed the jumpers correctly, I have even moved them around to see if it would work. No help though. The computer does see the drive but after I boot the drive letter does not come up and I can't install to make it, because it already is installed. I have removed it and reinstalled it, but that didn't help either. I have moved the drive around my ide ports to see if that helps and no dice. Same problem.

I have Win XP
Thunderbird 1gig Athlon pro
I also have a promise ata 100 ide card and have moved it there but no help.

What should I do. Let me know if you need more info.

THanks Dan

[sm8000]

Does your computer boot into Windows with the 80GB drive connected?

If so, go to Start->Run and type diskmgmt.msc and hit Enter. You should see the drive as unallocated space. Initialize the drive/write a signature to it, do NOT make it dynamic, and then partition and format.

[mahleumon]

Great tool. Thanks The drive doesn't show up here. It does show up in device manager though.

What's next?

[Direct1]

If it shows up in Device Manager, it should show up in diskmgmt.msc. Check again. Remember, you have to partition it and format it to be usable.

Good luck!

[mahleumon]

Cool, I reboot my computer and a convert screan came up under the disk management.

Thanks a lot.

[mahleumon]

Convert Screen. Sorry. Hey under layout it has it as Simple and under type it has it as dynamic. How do I change this to be simple. Or is it ok.