Okay I did just like you said. My IDE DVDRom was set as master so I set the old hard drive as master ran them both off the same IDE and power cable - still doesn't show up. It's spinning and not making and strange noises. :o(

Ola

Okay then what do I do with the CD Rom???

Ahhhh,

I see your quandry. Leave your dvdrom drive out for the time being. Boot your system up, you should be able to then go to my computer, and see your old hard drive. Open it up, copy your old files that you need (songs, pictures, documents...) to your new drive. After your sure that you have all your files, shut down, remove the old drive and hook your dvdrom drive back up, boot as normal and you're good.

Make sense?

I hav d same problem...but i tried the jumper thing and everything...stil doesnt recognize....emoved the dvdrom completely....

I also have the same problem and im guessing it came about by loading windowes onto a new/fresh system and not having my 750gig sata connected at the time. lik krynn i chickened out and disconected it so as not to format it.
But how do i get it back without starting over

Some people will say you are wrong but that is not the case. I put an old 80 gig drive in a computer with xp service pack 1 on a 100 gig drive that has been in service for 6 years. It is partitioned into 3 partitions and has worked perfectly. But it refused !! to recognize the 80 gig drive.

The 80 gig drive IS recognized in the bios. It already had a copy of xp service pack 2 on it, I was putting it in for backup of the original drive. I booted from the 80 gig drive. It recognized the original drive, but of course did not have all the setup for programs on it. I tried different configurations with the old drive but the only way it would recognize the 80 gig drive was when I plugged it into a USB dongle and mounted it as an external drive. I did not try it on the secondary IDE channel, only the primary. But I did try it as both master and slave, no difference. The original drive with the older XP version refused to recognize the second physical drive!

The problem has to be with my version of XP. I don't know why, and I haven't put in a lot of time to try to figure it out because I only needed the drive for backup. The system may be a bit convoluted but I can use it for that. If I find an answer in the near future I will post it here.

Hi all im new to the site but have info on how to set a secondary drive up so you can see it via mycomputer
First click on run and type indiskmgmt.msc and hit entre. Make sure it's online and formated, then click on the new drive and right click it then go to (change drive letter/path) and add it, it will then pop up in your (my computer)

diggleydog
Thank you so much, I was about ready to pull my hair out because I could not figure out how to make windows recognize my new hard drive. Followed your directions and it worked perfectly!

I had the same problem and the following worked for my Hp Pavilion with WinXP

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go to start > control panel (switch to Classic View) > administrative tools

> computer management > storage : disk management

your second disk will show, but not active(initialized)

need to make active by right clicking on window that represents then drive
then make active partition(drive)
select to create partition (if applicable)
select format (if applicable)

wait and drive will change status to "healthy" at top windows and your drive/data will now be accessible and visible in 'My Computer'
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Thanks everyone
Pete

4:37 PM 4/19/2009
Well thats all fine for You who got it sorted out & I'm glad for Ya,
But in My case the Slave drive( Fujitsu) IS indeed seen in BIOS!! But is NOT seen in XPproSPII nor XP's tool known as Disk Managment "not healthy nor in any other state" & as such I can't set it active because I can't see it in Disk Managment !!! http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q240/Xproject187/PC%20Pix/SlaveNotSeen.jpg

What gets Me is the fact that I know the Drive works! because I had it set as a Slave on another PC.
Please rest assured that on a 80 wire EIDE Ribbon w/a Quantum set as Master & a Fujitsu set as Slave the jumpers & ribbon positions are set correctly !!!!
So for those who think this is a cut & dry issue thats solved by M$'s Disk Managment tool, well I'm here to tell Ya The Issue Is Still Here!(It Happens)
~X~

I read the above great info then i read this problem still occurs and i think that that is a load of well you know what, but so far my new hard drive 750gb wd was recognized by bios and windows just not mycomputer so ive tried the above and thus far i have success it is there in disk managment, its still formatting the next issue i have is that my cd writer is powered only by sata cables and ive just found out im short of one back to the shop it is.