Re: XP won't recognize my second hard drive

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From: Chris (chrisuk82_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:17:21 GMT

Tyson wrote:
> I recently installed a 160GB hard drive in the secondary spot on the primary IDE channel. the BIOS and the device manager recognize the hard drive; my original one is c: and my CD drive is e: all of the jumpers on the actual drives are correct- i don't know what else to try. can someone help me please?

Try what george said. Install SP1.
If you already have SP1, try putting the new drive on a seperate
channel. You could remove the CD-ROM temporarily so you can boot from
the original hard drive. If this works, try having your CD-ROM as slave
on the second channel.
Failing this, if you shop around you should be able to find an extra PCI
IDE controller for about the cost of a network card.

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