2nd harddrive problems plz help!!
hi guys,im new to the forum. but have been reading it last few days and gained some useful things,now. . . i REALLY need ur help. . i bought a new drive today WD 40 gig. . and am going to use my maxtor 13 gig to store stuff on and to take it out to transfer stuff from work to home.
hi guys,im new to the forum.but have been reading it last few days and gained some useful things,now...i REALLY need ur help..i bought a new drive today WD 40 gig..and am going to use my maxtor 13 gig to store stuff on and to take it out to transfer stuff from work to home..heres the problem..BIOS detects both drives no probs..but XP doesnt show 2nd drive.i have WD set as master,and maxtor as slave..both on 80 pin IDE ribbon udma 100..i installed the WD drive as slave to begin with,so i could copy all the info from original drive to it so as to make it the master/boot drive..which worked fine..WD is master,and boots and has everything exactly as original drive did..i have tried every jumper setting possible..still no go..plz help,thx in advance
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well guys,i found out what was wrong..awhile back i had set the primary ide channel to none on the 2nd device.being i didnt have a 2nd device on that ribbon..thinking that would help speed up boot..so i caught it today when i had more time to look thru system...so it was USER ERROR 
thx for ur repsonses guys
thx for ur repsonses guys
