I bought a cable that would connect my IDE hard drive to my USB 2.0 port. In the bottom right hand corner of the screen, it shows that it's connected, but it's not in "My Computer". The installation guide just said to set the jumpers to Master, and plug it in. No drivers were needed since I have XP. I've also tried setting the jumpers to slave and it's still doesn't work. I've restarted with it plugged in, but that just messes things up because my computer doesn't know which drive to boot from, so i have to go to the BIOS and tell it to boot from C, because when the jumpers are set to Master, I have two Master Hard drives. I've also restarted with it plugged in as a Slave. I bought this on eBay, so I'm expecting a very slow response time, so I wanted to see if any one here knew.
2006-08-05 11:07:23 · 4 answers · asked by Mike-Q 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
cutie, pressing delete didn't do any thing so I pressed F2 which brought to this setup page. I saw the IDE part, but the only options were like "preformance, speed, bypass" and some thing else. there was no "auto slave".
2006-08-05 12:01:47 · update #1
benj, i didn't see my hard drive there.
2006-08-06 04:36:24 · update #2
restart you pc as it is starting back up gold down the del key
then enter the bios system
in there your see in the list
IDE
go in that part and set your new hard to to auto slave
you do that by hiting the page down/up
key then you hit the esc
key then the f10
key then save a save settings box will pop up
click ok to save
and restart your pc
hard drive no2 is installed
2006-08-05 11:18:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try this first before the radical approaches suggested. It is very common for drives to not get a drive letter!:
Most likely the drive just doesn't have a letter associated with it.
On the start menu click on run
Clear whatever is there and put in compmgmt.msc and hit enter
In the window that opens there will be a storage section
Choose disk management from the storage section
In the bottom right hand section see if there is a drive with no letter assigned...you might have to scroll
Right click it and then choose Change Drive Letters and Paths.
Give it a drive letter (the box will be blank).
You may have to restart
If the drive isn't listed in that disk management piece, you have bigger problems!
2006-08-05 14:55:16 · answer #2 · answered by Benj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe theres a video setting for computer preferences
2006-08-06 08:25:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
try getting an external encloser - that would make things easier.
2006-08-05 11:17:16 · answer #4 · answered by summalover1245 s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋