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February 13, 2005 at 03:58 AM
hefty10

Detecting a hard drive

by hefty10 . Updated 21 years, 4 months ago

Hi
I have installed a second hard drive on my pc which is running a 1.9 P4,512RDRAM,Windows XP.The problem is it used to have two 40gb hard drives,one set as master and one set as slave which worked fine.I took out the slave 40gb HD and installed an 80 gb hd which I tried to use as a slave,leaving the original 40gb hd as master.The 80 gb is detected in the BIOS and in Device manager but it is not in Windows explorer or in My Computer.Only the 40 gb hd is in Explorer and Device Manager as well as the bios and My Computer.I have tried swapping the HD’s around as master and slave and tried cable select,but the same thing happens.Can anyone advise me how to fix this problem please?
Also on a second PC,it had a 10 gb HD,a CD burner and recently a DVD burner added.It all worked fine so a 40 gb HD was added as a slave which works no problem.The only trouble is,it has been detected as F drive.The main HD is C drive with the two burners D and E drive.I was wondering how I can change it so the two HD’s are C and D drives and the two burners are E and F drive.If I remember rightly,it used to be possible to change it in Device Manager in Win 98,but it does not seem to be able to be done in XP.Could anyone tell me how I can change this please?
Thanks
Steve

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