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I bought a Maxtor hard drive (I can't figure out the actual "name" of the product, if there is one...) it's labeled
Maxtor / 120GB / 5400 / 2MB / ATA-133 / EIDE Hard Drive
from Tigerdirect. It came with no instructions, save how to set the jumper, which I set to "slave."I don't think there was any problem with the physical installation, but I cannot get Windows 2000 to recognize its existence. I'm sure I need to partition and format it, but I've no idea how; all the tutorials I can find online only apply to Win98.
Did you indeed set it up as a slave? If so, does the BIOS see the drive? If it does, just go into Disk Administrator and you can partition it and assign drive letters.
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How do I know if BIOS sees the drive?
I tried going into Disk Administrator, and I can't find it, although I'm not sure what to look for.
I did indeed set it up as a slave, so far as I can tell; I set the jumper as instructed by the manufacturer.
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Watch the POST screens at startup to see if the drive is properly identified by MODEL. If so, then proceed as per response #1. If not, then you have something set wrong. Is the second drive connected to the same cable as the primary drive?
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Thanks for the tips, there - I have my HD recognized now, but the problem has changed from one thing to another.
My drives were set up as follows:
Primary Master: Old hard drive
Primary Slave: DVD+/-RW
Secondary Master: DVD ROM
Secondary Slave: CD-RWI had tried to connect the HD to the secondary cable, which wasn't working, so I switched the cables with the DVD+/-RW. Now the new HD is there, but the DVD burner isn't.
The problem seems to be having more than 4 disk drives. Is there anything I can do about this?
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With two on-board dual-channel EIDE controllers (standard issue for a long time) there "should" be no problem with 4 devices installed.
Decide where/how you want each drive (HD/DVD etc.) installed/recognised.
Verify you have jumpers for each drive set accordingly; i.e. ensure you are not mixing cable-select (cs) and "standard" jumper settings on a given ribbon; that one drive on a given ribbon is Master (with Slave) and t'other drive on same ribbon is Slave; use one system only (jumpers "or" csl) on the same ribbon-cable - don't mix them on the same ribbon. If using cable-select ensure you are using an appropriate ribbon.
More on mulitple-drives, ribbon-cables, jumpers/cs etc. at:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf_CS.htm
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Trvler
The poster has 5 drives now.
Bobbotg
You have two choices. One remove one of the optical drives. The DVDrom seems to be the least needed. Or, install an add in controller card, which will give you 4 more connections.
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I disagree. Your CD-RW drive is the most redundant. Your DVD-RW drive can do anything, and more, that your CD-RW can.
Most recent (and COMPLETE) systems now include a DVD player and a DVD burner.
So do yorself a favor and put both hard drives on the primary...and with the DVD drives on the secondary channels.
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"OtheHill" - missed that... He/she could add in a Promise (or similar) controller-card to allow for the fifth device?
However "moiety's" idea to remove the CDRW makes sense as most (all current) DVD burners will handle CDR/RW duties too?
I suspect that problem lies overall with jumper settings, i.e. mixing the two systems - jumpers and cs; or possibly a ribbon-issue (less likely)?
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Not to argue but to record a DVD from DVD would require both DVD units.
Having those two units one can do everything that could be done if they had only kept both writers.
Having only both writers will not allow recording directly from DVD.
So, I agree that the least needed device in this scenario is the CDRW.
Bryan
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