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361391 2005-06-05 21:38:00 I have been given a Seagate 40 Gb HDD which I installed into a portable case and formated to 40 gb Fat32 using Partition Magic 8.
The hard drive is visible and completely useable whilst installed in the portable drive but when I install it into my computer as a second HDD (where I need it) - Windows cannot see it!
The drive is visible in the Bios, the jumpers are set to 'slave' mode, but even formatting it as NTFS it cannot be seen!
I am running XP Home, 80Gb (in 4 separate partitions), 1Gb ram, 2.4GHz.
Any solutions anyone...please?
fnphoto (2434)
361392 2005-06-05 23:12:00 Put it back in the case .

Then boot into XP .

Then go to control panel/admin tools/computer management, then disk management . If that 2nd hdd appears here as unallocated, highlight it / right mouse format .
Speedy Gonzales (78)
361393 2005-06-05 23:44:00 I have been given a Seagate 40 Gb HDD which I installed into a portable case and formated to 40 gb Fat32 using Partition Magic 8.
The hard drive is visible and completely useable whilst installed in the portable drive but when I install it into my computer as a second HDD (where I need it) - Windows cannot see it!
The drive is visible in the Bios, the jumpers are set to 'slave' mode, but even formatting it as NTFS it cannot be seen!
I am running XP Home, 80Gb (in 4 separate partitions), 1Gb ram, 2.4GHz.
Any solutions anyone...please?

How is it formated as? Sounds like a Primary. As a second drive it really shound be formated as an Extended with the actual drive created inside the extended partition.
Big John (551)
361394 2005-06-06 05:57:00 How is it formated as? Sounds like a Primary. As a second drive it really shound be formated as an Extended with the actual drive created inside the extended partition.I have never heard of this before when formatting and partitioning a secondary master hard drive? Do you have further information on how this works better? :) Jen (38)
361395 2005-06-06 06:07:00 How is it formated as? Sounds like a Primary. As a second drive it really shound be formated as an Extended with the actual drive created inside the extended partition.
What? I don't get that. A HDD if master, doesn't matter whether its on the primary or the secondary.

Anyway the problem may be if in the neclosure it will be set with jumpers to master. Then if you put it in the PC as a 2nd HDD, and its attached to the same cable as the other HDD, it should have the jumpers chnaged to slave.
Oe even if its not on the same cable as the other HDD, cause probably the secondary IDE will have a CD drive on it as master?
pctek (84)
361396 2005-06-06 07:30:00 I have never heard of this before when formatting and partitioning a secondary master hard drive? Do you have further information on how this works better? :)

I am talking about primary and extended partitons here not drives. The boot partition up until Windows 2000 had to be on a Primary partiton (not primary drive). Not sure if it still does. Any others then the remaining space was partiton into an extended partion on the rest of the drive and then the remaining partitions made inside this. If you have used Partition Magic before you should know what I am talking about.
Big John (551)
361397 2005-06-06 07:33:00 What? I don't get that. A HDD if master, doesn't matter whether its on the primary or the secondary.



See response above. I was talking of partitions, not drives.

He said the drive was visible to BIOS so obviously it is there as far as that goes. That it does not show as a drive to format suggests it has not been partitioned properly.
Big John (551)
361398 2005-06-06 17:25:00 What seems to be missed here is that XP will NOT allow you to just change a hard drive from one puter to another! If data is written on that hd by the originating opsys, it cannot be used (but can be seen) on the traded hd (slave, CS, master or not!) :groan: I understand that there was considerable thought about using a self-destruct process to punish anyone who tried it . . . but that doesn't seem to have been done . . . YET!

It has a built-in deadman's switch that sees the id on the mobo and will not allow you to put the opsys or any of it's derivatives into another bios/mobo .

M$ does this to not allow you to clone the opsys for a different puter . The hd has to stay in the originating tower, and will not let you use it anywhere else .

This has been a frustration to people for a while, and I have not seen any work-arounds to get this changed yet . Maybe someday!

Maybe! Just maybe, you can use the two towers on a router and a LAN setup though .
SurferJoe46 (51)
361399 2005-06-06 21:23:00 Ok it was formatted so its not anything to do with O/Ss being on it.
The BIOS sees it.
Check its not something like a limitation of drive letters. You have 4 partitions, so C:, D:, E:, F:, G:, and CD presumably H:. Could be your O/S is set to stop assigning anymore drive letters at that point.
pctek (84)
361400 2005-06-06 21:53:00 Set to cable select Rob99 (151)
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