Recognizing My Second Hard Drive

[RB]

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I have added a second hard drive as a slave drive. Both dirves are 160 GB,
Windows will recognize the second drive for a while then it suddenly
disappears. I have partitioned the second drive into a ~40 GB and ~120 GB
drives. I have installed the second one 4 times, and am afraid to put data
on it for fear of losing it. BTW - BIO recognizes both, but Windows won't at
least in explorer? Can anyone help me???

 

[anna]

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"RB" <RB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:975E16AA-23C4-485D-8F13-127526D22790@microsoft.com...
>I have added a second hard drive as a slave drive. Both dirves are 160 GB,
> Windows will recognize the second drive for a while then it suddenly
> disappears. I have partitioned the second drive into a ~40 GB and ~120 GB
> drives. I have installed the second one 4 times, and am afraid to put
> data
> on it for fear of losing it. BTW - BIO recognizes both, but Windows won't
> at
> least in explorer? Can anyone help me???

RB:
When you say " Windows will recognize the second drive for a while then it
suddenly disappears.", what precisely does this mean? When you boot up that
drive appears (is listed) in My Computer and Windows Explorer for x amount
of minutes, and then "disappears"?

Or sometimes the drive appears upon boot up and other times it doesn't?

What does Disk Management show re that drive?

Are you *certain* that your IDE connections are proper & secure and that the
drive is correctly jumpered?

And that the drive has been properly partitioned and formatted?
Anna

 

[RB]

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Yes to your two questions on IDE connections and jumpers.

The drive recognition is being lost upon a reboot or a cold boot. I
understand windows is aware of this problem and is researching it.


"Anna" wrote:

>
> "RB" <RB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:975E16AA-23C4-485D-8F13-127526D22790@microsoft.com...
> >I have added a second hard drive as a slave drive. Both dirves are 160 GB,
> > Windows will recognize the second drive for a while then it suddenly
> > disappears. I have partitioned the second drive into a ~40 GB and ~120 GB
> > drives. I have installed the second one 4 times, and am afraid to put
> > data
> > on it for fear of losing it. BTW - BIO recognizes both, but Windows won't
> > at
> > least in explorer? Can anyone help me???
>
> RB:
> When you say " Windows will recognize the second drive for a while then it
> suddenly disappears.", what precisely does this mean? When you boot up that
> drive appears (is listed) in My Computer and Windows Explorer for x amount
> of minutes, and then "disappears"?
>
> Or sometimes the drive appears upon boot up and other times it doesn't?
>
> What does Disk Management show re that drive?
>
> Are you *certain* that your IDE connections are proper & secure and that the
> drive is correctly jumpered?
>
> And that the drive has been properly partitioned and formatted?
> Anna
>
>
>