Slave installation problem

I have bought a 160gb hd to be my slave to my 80gb current hd

I plugged it in and put the power cable in, set the jumpers, started up but i cant find it

Its vibrating a little, so its working

I had the same problem when i installed my graphics card which i believe is due to bios/software not allowing for upgrades as they don't want me to do that
( Packard bell that is )

And for that i took it to the shop who installed it for me and replaces a load of drivers which i have on a CD which i was told not to put into my CD drive.

Any ideas?

( some stuff might be helpful )
Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-8SIMLNF/NF7
Chips Set SiS 651
IDE Controller SiS PCI IDE Controller

Any more information that would help ill provide

Thanks for any help
Peanut

 

Sorry to double post but in device manager its now says

" ?? SM Bus Controller "

Related?

 

Hi, peanut.

Can't find it

In Windows (which version by the way including Service Packs) or in BIOS?

Two things, firstly there is a 137G barrier for some older bios and versions of windows below XP SP1.

To recognise the new drive, first enter the bios (setup) by tapping the (probably del) key at power on. watch the screen for instructions. Then select the autodetect hard drives or the ide drives and see that the drive is shown. Then save and exit.

The drive should now appear in windows disk management console, but not formatted

start>run>typein
diskmgmt.msc

You can partition and format the drive from here.

 

I have found it in BIOS and it is set as the slave


the computer isn't very old, less than two years


But i cant find it in diskmgmt.msc

Thanks for the quick reply

 

Make sure you have chosen save changes and exit in bios and answered yes to the confirm.
What size does the bios report?

Restart the pc.

In disk management

Are you sure it doesn't show up in the bottom right pane as disk 1 or 2.
You will not see it in the 'Volume' pane until you partition and format it.

 

I did that in the BIOS

it says its 164gb, as it says on the packet

http://i11.tinypic.com/5z5bmg2.jpg
( my other CD / virtual drives in the scroll box )
http://i14.tinypic.com/638m0qu.jpg
( that is my 80gb hd )


I believe this is a driver issue as i had with my graphics card when i got a new one

 

Have you tried action>rescan drives and
view>bottom>disklist

 

http://i14.tinypic.com/4xvitj7.jpg

As i said, i dont think the problem is as simple as my incompetence

But thanks for your help

 

You can sometimes force Windows to recognise a drive by opening a command prompt and creating a partition with 'Diskpart'

 

Ok, how would i go about doing that?

It isnt being recognised therefore does not have a letter assigned to it, in my knowledge anyway

Code:

DISKPART> list volume

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 0     D                       DVD-ROM         0 B
  Volume 1     F                       DVD-ROM         0 B
  Volume 2     E                       DVD-ROM         0 B
  Volume 3     C                NTFS   Partition     75 GB  Healthy    System



DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status      Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  ----------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online        75 GB      0 B

 

You are right the drive is not showing in 'list disk'

Please confirm your Windows version (windows key + break)

Also try temporarily setting the new drive to master on the second IDE channel, instead of the CD.

Alternatively, if you have the Windows CD, make the new drive master (with the original disconnected) and boot from the CD to windows setup. This will allow you to partition and format the new drive.

I have just realised you also have SCSI drives. These can sometimes cause masking problems when you have a volume (partition) to be mounted.

 

http://i12.tinypic.com/4uswqhh.jpg

I don't have my windows CD

Perhaps a bootable disk?

know of any programs?

Ok, ill try setting it as master and edit my post with results

 

We know your BIOS can recognise the drive and also that Windows XP SP2 should have no trouble with a 160GB job.

I would also temporarily disconnect the SCSI drives.

Yes any bootable disk (floppy or CD) with FDISK on it will do, (this was the command line program for previous versions of Windows.) Fdisk is much easier to use than Diskpart.

I have heard reports, though I've never seen an instance, of certain hard drives being unable to work together on the same IDE channel, because their implementation of ATA is nearly but not quite correct. If this happens the advised solution is to run the second drive as slave to the second channel or buy another IDE card to slot in.