Adding a second Hard drive to XP environment

[Jack McD]

I just added a New Western Digital WD400BBRTL (40G) hard
drive as a slave. I can't get XP to recognize it. I
checked with Western home site and tried all the
recommended jumper settings. No luck. They also
recommended checking Device Manager for second IDE
channel settings of "Auto Detect" on Device 1. XP has
this option grayed out so I can't chage it. Any
suggestions??

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Do you have the drive jumpered correctly for the way you've
connected it? Does the PC's BIOS recognize the drive correctly?

Once you've ensured that the hardware is configured properly, the
hard drive cannot appear in Windows Explorer or My Computer until it
has been partitioned and formatted. Right-click My Computer > Manage
> Disk Management. Create and format partition(s) on the second hard
drive as desired.




Bruce Chambers

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"Jack McD" > wrote in message
...
> I just added a New Western Digital WD400BBRTL (40G) hard
> drive as a slave. I can't get XP to recognize it. I
> checked with Western home site and tried all the
> recommended jumper settings. No luck. They also
> recommended checking Device Manager for second IDE
> channel settings of "Auto Detect" on Device 1. XP has
> this option grayed out so I can't chage it. Any
> suggestions??