SCSI + IDE on same machine

I have a Fujitsu 37GB SCSI hard drive and a Western Digital 320GB IDE hard drive in my machine. The SCSI drive has the operating system on it and I use the IDE drive for storage. I'm trying to do a fresh install of Windows XP Pro SP2 by booting from the installation CD. When I reach the prompt where it asks which hard drive to select, it only shows the IDE hard drive. I went into bios and tried disabling/enabling SCSI controller, changing my boot order, removing the IDE drive and scanned the disk for errors and nothing works. Both drives work fine once windows starts.

Dell Precision Workstation 650
Windows XP Pro
Intel Xeon 2.8GHz Processor
1GB Ram
Bios Revision A03

 

If the second drive has its own drive letter, you should be able to disconnect it, then reinstall Windows, then reconnect, and it should show up again.
If you have bakup dvd's, it would be wise to copy off your data , first - in case you hit a problem. The scsi drive is slower than the WD, I would think you would be better, if you can save your data, to reinstall Windows on the WD drive, and partition it with, say 50gb for Windows, and then you have the rest for data, and the scsi drive (drive would be C: Windows, D, AND E FOR DATA.

 

I've already tried that with no luck. Whether together or separate, both drives boot up just fine and they both work fine together when windows is running, but the SCSI drive doesn't show up when i boot up from the CD-Rom to do a fresh install. For some reason Windows just doesn't want to install to the SCSI drive.

Dell Precision Workstation 650
Windows XP Pro
Intel Xeon 2.8GHz Processor
1GB Ram
Bios Revision A03

 

After lots of research I discovered that I had to load the scsi driver manually from a floppy during windows installation setup. I can now install windows to the scsi drive. yay.

 

Your reply will be very useful, to others, who may have the older hard drives, and need to load the scsi driver,so I appreciate your coming back to let all know the solution.