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XP Pro will not recognize 2nd HDD....I don't understand why?
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Switch on and watch your screen at the very first stages of boot up. It'll tell you what to press to enter the BIOS and CMOS settings screen. It could be ESC, F1, DEL, F10.
Then you browse around to see what the BIOS has recognised. Then report.
Then you browse around to see what the BIOS has recognised. Then report.
Suspishio
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bios dose not see the new hard drive. tryed all jumper settings and swaped ide ribbin round but to no avail. even arcoris true image dose not see it.
To Jukebox: Then you have a hardware problem. Double check this by seeing whether or not the HDD is recognised as a slave in another PC. If it is, then your disk controller may be shot.
Suspishio
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Dell XPS M1710; T7200 2GHz Core 2 Duo; 2GB RAM; XP Pro (32)
switched ribbins. used ribbin lead and master fron windowsMe (did not change jumpers). power on bios did not find it BUT!! it worked fine. put spare dvd/wr in middle (changed jumper to slave) powered on, bios found it and works fine. don't know how or why but i'm happy
That happens too. When you wiggle connectors (e.g. when changing cables), better contact can be made etc.
Well done.
Well done.
Suspishio
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Qosmio G50-10H; T9400 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo; 4GB RAM; Vista HP (32)
nForce 680i LT; Q6600 Quad Core 2.4GHz; 8GB RAM; XP Pro (64)
Dell XPS M1710; T7200 2GHz Core 2 Duo; 2GB RAM; XP Pro (32)
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Qosmio G50-10H; T9400 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo; 4GB RAM; Vista HP (32)
nForce 680i LT; Q6600 Quad Core 2.4GHz; 8GB RAM; XP Pro (64)
Dell XPS M1710; T7200 2GHz Core 2 Duo; 2GB RAM; XP Pro (32)
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Originally Posted by Suspishio 
Windows doesn't need to be told by anything other than the BIOS that there is another HDD.
What does the BIOS report on boot up?
If you have no idea what the bios even reports then you may need to do a little reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS
Where ever you go, there you are.
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Originally Posted by Tezdoll
This is just trouble shooting. windows has its own "bios" that will detect hardware (sometimes) that the bios does not see. However, most machines if you can not see it in your bios then you can not see it in your O/S.
If you have no idea what the bios even reports then you may need to do a little reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS
It looks to me in this case that there is either an IDE setting adrift (perhaps jumper on the motherboard - although I've not found one in this regard on motherboards I've dealt with ) or the IDE controller is faulty.
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Qosmio G50-10H; T9400 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo; 4GB RAM; Vista HP (32)
nForce 680i LT; Q6600 Quad Core 2.4GHz; 8GB RAM; XP Pro (64)
Dell XPS M1710; T7200 2GHz Core 2 Duo; 2GB RAM; XP Pro (32)
My advice is at your risk
Qosmio G50-10H; T9400 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo; 4GB RAM; Vista HP (32)
nForce 680i LT; Q6600 Quad Core 2.4GHz; 8GB RAM; XP Pro (64)
Dell XPS M1710; T7200 2GHz Core 2 Duo; 2GB RAM; XP Pro (32)
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