hd not recognised

[matabhaine]

I have a cavier green 1tb hd, it had win7 on it, I deleted it and did a quick format, I want it as a 2nd internal hd. I have a sata2 samsung 500GB with winxp on it as the primary drive, I have tried everything to get the 2nd drive to show up, it shows up in the bios and the device manager but not in my computer nor disk management, I have swapped the drives about in the case and the bios, maybe these drives are incompatable eg speeds, any ideas would be appreciated, I have searched the net in vain for a solution.

[KenB]

Hi,

 

Download TweakUI from here: (scroll down the page a bit)

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-xp

 

It is a while since I used this so bear with me :)

 

If you install it and then run it you should see down the left side a list - and "Drives" should be there somewhere.

 

If you click on this there should be a list of drive letters with boxes to the left.

Make sure all of the boxes are ticked (checked|) and Save the changes.

 

Try the drive again.

[matabhaine]

tweakui test

 

did what you advised, drive shows up ticked with a red circle and a white question mark, along with g h i j k etc all the same, it was already checked, I unchecked then rechecked and applied but everything is the same. The drive still cannot be found.

[Synapse]

Could do to know the board make and model, and same for your second 1TB drive.

 

Also, how did you quick format the 1TB drive if you can't see it.

[KenB]

drive shows up ticked with a red circle and a white question mark

This indicates a problem ( obviously ) but I am on Vista now - I will need to have a look on my XP machine.

 

In addition to Synapse's questions ......did you format it NTFS ?

[matabhaine]

i did a quick ntfs format with 2nd drive when 1st drive unplugged b4 loading winxp, 2nd drive had win7, it had two partions which i deleted and made 1 primary partition, on the surface of the 2nd drive it says jumper settings for the drive in various partitons and uses, the 2nd hd is a wdc wd10 ears-22y5b1, mobo msi p6n, winxp sp3, intel duo core 6600, gtx 440, i recently took out the GC and put the gtx in, originally it was a palit gt9 nvidia. i will gladly add any further info, I've never had any probs like this, sure I have had drives not showing up but I always managed to suss it and fix it, I don't want to swapped the 2nd drive to another pc for primary use and vice versa as I am just through, updating four pc's with various os installs.

[matabhaine]

hd format

 

i just put the 2nd hd into a docking station and formatted full ntfs just to make sure its not damaged in any way

[Synapse]

Have you checked the BIOS and hard drive SATA settings are matched. It looks like your drive is SATA 2 so all should be ok, but it is worth a check.

 

Also, have you updated the nforce chipset drivers?

[matabhaine]

think I found the problem

 

did a bit of reading about the drive, I took it out of my new pc with win7, it appears to be a wd caviar 10ears 4k drive, the jumper needs to be set or aligment software which seems to out of date also, oh dear I have another hd to buy and a free drive to sit and gather dust, there is an emulator to emulate 512k sectors but I think I will pass, thanx for the help much appreciated