Piggybacked HDD's on 2nd IDE ribbon

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- May 28, 2009 at 08:01 PM
xpcman

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- May 29, 2009 at 10:49 AM

Hello, All I just installed 2 40gig WD400 HDD's in my PC running win 03 server. they are detected and show up in bios as seconardy master and secondary slave and show up im the device manager, but they don't show up on "My Computer" Only the two HDD's on my primary ribbon show up.. Any suggestions would be a great help.. Thanks in advance...

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12candyman

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May 29, 2009 at 06:40 AM

please check the jumper settings!

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xpcman

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May 29, 2009 at 10:49 AM

the new drives will not show in "My Computer" until they are partitioned and formatted. If they are new drives or were formatted under Linux they must be reformatted.

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