I have this Quantium Fireball 6gb hard drive that I want to set up as a slave. I have more then one PC at home and I am getting the exact same problem on each PC when I try to slave the drive. The BIOS will detect the drive by its name and size, but the drive does not appear in the My Computer icon. I have put the drive on the first connection on the IDE cable and on the second connection. I have tried the jumper in Master, Slave and Cable Select. Depending on the setting, the bios might not see it, but when the jumper is set to slave, the bios will see it, but the My Computer will not. I have confirmed that I am using the IDE 1 slot on the Motherboard. I have tested this drive on a couple of clones and one Proprietary system.

I have a couple of questions...
What typically is the configuration of the IDE cable?? Which connection does the Master drive go in and which connection does the Slave go in??

Secondly, what is happening that this drive is not being detected in the My Computer icon?? Why does BIOS find it but Windows does not???

Thanks for your suggestions.

Andrew

Is the harddrive partitioned and formatted? If not, that would be why it isn't seen in My Computer. Try finding it in managing storage.

Try the primary with no jumper. Try every combo you can think of....no foolin.

I have seen some pretty weird stuff work, especially with old drives.

Jimi_l

Thanks OtheHill...

You were completly correct!!!

As soon as I ran fdisk on it, I found out that it did not have any partitions. So, I created a partition, formatted it and it works great!!

Thanks again.
Andrew

Glad you got it working.