Ladies and Gentleman,
What began as a simple procedure turned into a significant undertaking and I am now at a slight loss of ideas. Here is the situation.
I recently purchased a 500GB Internal IDE drive to be installed on my home desktop as a secondary hard drive. I thought it would be relatively simple, but never imagined that the system would not be able to recognize the drive. While the BIOS Setup can see the drive as connected to the Secondary IDE Device, the hard drive is undetectable in Windows XP. It will not show up in Disk Management, and the Device Manager does not recognize the drive either.
After doing some research, it seems that older motherboards may not be able to recognize the large capacity drives such as this one. Western Digital gives a solution to setup the hard drive by explicitly stating the Cylinders, Sectors as much smaller than they actually are THEN running a software tool that will enable the drive. I have not had time to implement this solution yet.
Does anyone have any suggestions/solutions? I’m primarily looking for a device to store my expanding music collection. At one point, Internal drives ran faster than external ones, however, does anyone know whether USB2.0 can run at the same speed as an internal IDE?
Any ideas and hopefully solutions are welcome.
Thanks as always,
Nate
