i put second hard disk as slave 200GB. IN THE BIOS I CAN SEE THE DISK AS SLAVE BUT IN MY COMPUTER NOT?

Question

I HAVE PENTIOUM 4 WHATS WRONG

Answer 1

well my best shot is that you have a new harddrive...one that hasn't been partitioned yet.so what you need to do is right click on my computer, manage,disk management. in the right side you will see disk 0,that's your first hard drive , and disk 1, the one you've added.at disk 1 you will see there is no partition, so you right click and make one and then right click on it and format.that's it.if u'd rather do it from ms-dos , here's how:
you type fdisk in the run field.
then you press 5
you chose the second drive
and then 1-create a new partition
1-new primary.....
and answer yes to all
i sugest the first aproach.hope this helps

Answer 2

This would make me mad if I bought a good hard drive and it did not read right. This is not the case a basic to system builders all know that 160 gigs is all that a basic system can read. You have to purchase a controller card to read anything hire then 160 gigs OK. I offer to you to go to my web site and sign my guest-book and keep in touch because I know the best way to go these days are a external hard drive it does not put more heat in your system and the system still runs as it was and you have a portable hard drive you can take over to friends house and share movies, mp3's etc. Good Luck !!!!!

Answer 3

Could be:
1) jumpers not set correctly, if using cable select must have 80 wire cable and both drives set for CS
2) if set as slave, double check old drive for jumper set to 'only', move to master.
3)did ya partition and format?
4) bios not recognizing due to limitation, check w/MB manufacturer and/or hdd manufacturer.

Answer 4

check the cable if it is sata, if PATA check jumper setting and cable as the slave must connect to the slave connector and master to primary connector, I have 3 HDD, use one for programs, 1 for files, and 1 for backup

Answer 5

You need to create a partition on it, then format the partition.

Answer 6

check the jumper..and put it in the right position

Answer 7

have you formatted it yet?