re: Slave not seen in My Computer Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 2:02 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Steve B (1909 messages posted) Old BIOSs can't handle big disks directly. In order for big disks to be used in such a computer, the disk manufacturer includes a CD with software that somehow allows the BIOS to handle the disk. At least I think so. I'm thinking if the 40 GB disk was formatted on such a computer, it probably won't be readable on the new computer. If this is the problem, I don't know what the solution is. On Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 6:45 am, suruli wrote: >Just got an HP 2.2g (in pieces). It had a 60g drive with xp home on it. We took my >60g out of my AMD system, and my 40g slave and tried to hook them up in the new system. >For several hours we had trouble getting it to recognize the drives. It would see >the two CD roms, but no HDs. Changed ribbons etc, and finally changed to the original >master. Got the master and slave to recognize, but not the CD roms then. One pair >or the other, not both. After a few more hours (no idea how) we finally got all four >drives to recognize. >You'd think we'd leave well ebough alone, but nooooo. The board was going into a >different box, so out everything came again. >Now for the last three days, we've tried to get windows to see the slave. It will >recognize the master, slave and cd-roms in bios and in the device manager, but the >slave will NOT show in my computer. >We've tried several different drives both as masters and slaves, changed ribbons, >changed settings to cls, uninstalled and reinstalled the slave and still, it doesn't >show in My Computer, but it does in bios and in the device manager. >For quite some time we did have trouble auto detecting the drives in bios as well, >but for the moment they are auto detecting. >Short of declaring this board posessed, is there something we're missing? Written in response to: Slave not seen in My Computer (suruli: Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 6:45 am) Responses to this message: re: Slave not seen in My Computer (suruli: Friday, December 12, 2003 at 4:59 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Slave not seen in My Computer (suruli: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 6:45 am) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (triplate: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 6:58 am) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (suruli: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 7:07 am) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (Steve B: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 7:09 am) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (suruli: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 7:16 am) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (tom: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 10:49 am) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (suruli: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 11:29 am) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (Steve B: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 2:02 pm) re: Slave not seen in My Computer (suruli: Fri, Dec 12, 2003, 4:59 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum