New hard disk appears in BIOS and Device Manager, not under My Computer

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From: Gerry (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 06:26:38 -0700

IDE and SCSI hard drives don't like to play together.
Since your SCSI is your primary boot drive. Configure the
IDE drive as a slave as well.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hey guys and gals,
>I have a dell system that I just installed a second HD.
>It is a 120gb hd on a IDE controller. The Primary hd is
a
>40gb on a scsi controller.
>
>On the IDE controller I also have a cd drive player. So
>the current configuration is the primary drive is a scsi
>hd and on the IDE controller it's a Western Digital 120
hd
>set to primary with the cd drive set as the (slave).
>
>In the OS which is XP Professional, I can navigate to it
>through explorer and see it in disk management and
>everywhere else except MY Computer.
>
>So far, I've updated the Bio, reinstalled the SP's and
>MSOFT updates, verified jumper setting and reconfigure
the
>HD setup in the system itself.
>
>Can any of you my fello IS brothers and sisters give me
>some suggestion on fixing this issue?
>
>Thanks,
>
>S. Hare
>..
>
>
>.
>

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