Second harddrive

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My girlfriend's parents' harddrive stopped working. I put in an older one and took the broken one home, i have it setup as a slave, and during startup its recognized. But i go into my computer and nothing. Is there somethign i need to do or is this thing just dead? Id love to have an extra 80gb.

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What version of windows are you running, and what version of windows was on the old drive? It might be a file-system problem. Windows 98 doesnt read NTFS, i dont think.
 
Is FDISK still supported in Windows XP? I very much doubt it!

You need to go into the Disk Administrator, and mount the drive as a new volume. If Disk Administrator cannot see the disk, then it's junk.
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
Is FDISK still supported in Windows XP? I very much doubt it!

You need to go into the Disk Administrator, and mount the drive as a new volume. If Disk Administrator cannot see the disk, then it's junk.
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Yup. If the 'parents' computer stopped recognizing it it's either because of hardware failure or the file system is blown. In Disk Administrator you'll be able to format the disk and mount it on your computer.

I actually used to use a 60GB drive as "massive portable storage" between home and work. After you import the disk once it will be recognized each time you put it into each computer.
 
Make sure slave is enabled in device manager. Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager -> look for IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, expand it, double click either primary or secondary, which ever the drive is on, and under the advanced settings tab make sure the Device Type is Auto-Detection and transfer mode is DMA if available. Restart to see changes.
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
Is FDISK still supported in Windows XP? I very much doubt it!

You need to go into the Disk Administrator, and mount the drive as a new volume. If Disk Administrator cannot see the disk, then it's junk.
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I used it last month on my home computer, and yes it is XP. Fdisk is supported by XP.
 
Don't forget to check the jumper settings on each drive. Some drives don't like to have a slave on the same channel unless they are set to "MASTER" and will interfere with proper operation of the slave drive. Avoid the CS (Cable Select) setting as well.


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Originally posted by ///M-Spec
Don't forget to check the jumper settings on each drive. Some drives don't like to have a slave on the same channel unless they are set to "MASTER" and will interfere with proper operation of the slave drive. Avoid the CS (Cable Select) setting as well.


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I would agree, but he says the BIOS is detecting both.
 
Originally posted by Burnout
I would agree, but he says the BIOS is detecting both.
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I've seen a case of a BIOS combination detect and identify a particular drive properly at POST, but fails to initialize it for the OS. While I don't think this is what is happening here, in any case, it never hurts to check.


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Originally posted by ///M-Spec
I've seen a case of a BIOS combination detect and identify a particular drive properly at POST, but fails to initialize it for the OS. While I don't think this is what is happening here, in any case, it never hurts to check.


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Indeed. Double checking can be the key to your PC working or not.:)
 
Originally posted by ///M-Spec
Don't forget to check the jumper settings on each drive. Some drives don't like to have a slave on the same channel unless they are set to "MASTER" and will interfere with proper operation of the slave drive. Avoid the CS (Cable Select) setting as well.


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I only ever use "Cable Select" if the IDE cable is actually stamped with the labels next to each connector. I think that proper support for CS was only really widely accepted by manufacturers in late 2000.
 

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