Hi!

Yes,I know,I have trouble with hard disk again :P
Today I'am buy a new HD 80Gb and I use it at slave.In first drive I have instaled xp home,so I try to create a partition and then format the second drive.When computer boot the second drive(slave) to recognize correct,but here the trouble start.I try with several boot disk,run all know dos,but I can't format drive.Then I try with xp boot install disk and I can create and format partition and install xp pro in this second drive.

The problem is that in master disk where I have installed xp home the second drive not appear in explorer or windows commander,but in sytem hardware show and message say(the drive work o.k.)

When I run xp pro on second drive the drive is visible,what is wrong and how I can fix this?

First.. if this was little me doing it, I'd run a proggie like Partition Magic over the drive, as I don't really trust fdisk. :(

Seond, to make the drive letter appear in XP..
right click on My Computer
click on Manage
...
this will give you the whole MMC thingy, which ya only need the disk managment set for.

click on the drive that doesn't have a letter, and click on "assign drive letter".

Hope that helps and/or answers questions, post back if so or not. :)

Thanx for your answer Cyberion!The drive is there,but I can't find options:

Looks like it finds the drive fine, but there is no file system on it, so you cannot use it with windows. To me, it looks like you have a fresh hard drive just sitting there. Looks like when you tried to create a partition on this drive (with whatever file system, FAT32, NTFS, etc) it failed somewhere. Try making the partition again. :)

I try to create new partion,but fail

I really don't understant,becouse I have installed on this drive xp pro,but something is not good,when I try to create a new partition i have this error message

o.k.let's try another way.Can someone suggest how I can start from beginning.
I try with dos,but the drive is not recognize even on ntfs dos,so how I can made new partition and format it?

Rudi1 - can you right click on the unallocated drive and take a print screen of what shows or just tell us the options available e.g. FORMAT?

They shows only new partition options,but I try to made it and have error like post before :(

@Rudi1,

One possible cause of your problems is your MB/BIOS not supporting very large HDs. I have a couple of PIII systems that will not even boot when a 80 GB HD is attached. Are you sure that this might not be the issue? A flash BIOS upgrade may help in this situation.

Tomboy

This is the new motherboard support for pentium 4/800,so must support large disk to.

Check and make sure that both drivers are plugged in at the correct location on the cable and be sure the master slave jumpers are set correct. If all is correct there then run Partition Magic or another disk program and set the partitions that way. Then go in disk managment and double check.

Thanks
Dudelive

Thanx for all yours answers,but I have enough work with this second drive(slave)!
I try almost everything what I know,but always fail when I try to format drive,so I just set this disk to master and install windows again.Maybae something not work correct when I have this drive set as slave.When I set jumpers to master and second disk to slave everything work without any problem.
I really don't know why not work in slave mode.Now I have this disk 80gb and second one 40gb.I like to have second disk larger,becouse I need it for video editing,but o.k.,only work a litle slower,becouse it's half large.

Cheers!

Are the drives different brands? I remember having trouble mixing Conner and Maxtor or Conner and WD drives, each one wanted to be Master. I ended up getting rid of the Conner and getting another Maxtor. After that, all worked fine. Don't know if this problem stilll happens with newer drives, these were 1 or 2GB drives I was having problems with. You also might try another IDE cable, it may be bad.