I have just had a Maxtor diamond 8. 40 gig hard drive delivered. I put it in and changed set it as a slave but it is now showing as a secondry slave on the BIOS and it is not appearing in my list of drives on my computer. When i booted up after putting in the drive it did say in the corner that new hardware had been detected so why can't i see it.

I am going to check my bios again and check the jumper setting as I assume that the CD writer is the primary slave but I am going to check. If anyone has any info it would be much appreciated as I am a novice at this and have never installed a secondary drive before.

Jim

if u have got the cd and the new drive on the same cable, set them to cable select on the jumpers and switch the plugs so the hdd is at the end plug and the cd is on the second plug

with windows XP it does not automatically recognise a new drive. You gotta go into control panel / admin options and set it up from there

i take it it's xp, by the thing popping up in't corner, if so did it say anything after detected new hardware?

and where are you looking for it, is it not apperaing in the hardware list or explorer or both?

I have changed the cables around now so that my original hard drive is now the primary master. the new hard drive is the primary slave and the cd/rw is the secondary slave.
I can see the new drive in the hardware list but not on the drive list on my computer. the drives are still showing up as before with the CD drive showing as the D drive. Shouldn't the new drive show as the D drive now since it is the primary slave.

I am going to try to set it up in admin like suggested but can someone give me some more info in case I get stuck.

thanks

jim

I assumed you have used the disk manager to set up a partition and create a drive on it ?
Start Menu -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Managment.
Then go to the Storage Section and select submenu item Disk Managment

I didn't think you had to do anything in windoze so long as the drive is formatted & partitioned

I've just installed the same drive myself at home.

If your PC is fairly modern you'll see your current drive on CS (Cable Select), leave the Maxtor on it's default jumper setting which is also CS.

"Cable Select" negates the need to set "master" and "slave" options, "Cable Select" means the controller will then work out which is the "master" and which is the "slave."

I wouldn't put the CD and hard drive on the same cable (channel), attach your new hard drive to the second connector on the cable your existing hard drive is connected to and put the CD on the other cable.

If it's Win2k or XP, right click on "my computer", click "manage" the select "disk management" in the left hand pane. Your existing drive in the right hand pane will be called "disk 0", your new drive will be "disk 1", right click and select "format".

Edited to add: the new drive needs to be at the end of the cable farthest from the controller, the old one should be nearest the controller. Hope that makes sense.

My main drive is a western digital 80gb drive and it does not seem to have a cable select option. It has three options which are 1.Slave 2.Master w/slave present 3.Single or Master. I currently have it set to 2.amster w/slave present. My new drive is now on the same channel and set to slave 9no jumper).
The CD/RW is on channel 2 and set to slave.
I am about to follow your instructions Binary. After I have formatted it will it show on my list of drives?

jim

I gone into disk management and my new drive is showing as disk 1 as you said but when I right click I only get the option to create a new partition.
It says 38.28BG Unallocated.
How important is it that the new drive is furthest away from the controller?

jim

From what you've described you have an older controller or a IDE/ATA cable on which CS don't work.

Good news though, if "disk management" can see it all is OK.

Create the partition first (only takes a second), then right click it again and you'll get an option for format it.

When it's formatted Windows will automatically assign the next free drive letter and it will then show up in windows explorer.

If you currently have the first hard drive on C: and the CD Rom on D:, you could right click the CD Rom drive in "disk management" and change it's letter assignment, Z: is a good choice. You can then set your new hard drive to E: so they run in sequence.

Thanks Binary.

Your help is much appreciated. I will post again when it works. (Thats optimism for you).

Jim

It has worked and it is now showing on the drives list.

Thanks again.

Jim