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I DONT UNDERSTAND IT.... for whatever reason there when i put 2 hard drives in some of my computers some times for whatever reason when i boot it up and look under windows explorer i cant see the other hard drive !!!!!! but then some time i can see it and it marks it as d drive or whatever..... i put the exact same o.s. on each one of them (win 98se) but for some reason i can see it........ well i fin got another computer where i have to get it to work and it wont..... can anyone help me and tell me whats going on???????
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i had a similar problem just this week where i recently installed a 60gig h.d as a slave and windows was periodically dropping the h.d, not recognising it. A tech told me to put in a bigger power supply unit i.e at least 300w, when i looked inside my tower i had a 250w. installing a 350w unit did the trick, touch wood i got no probs for the last week or so.
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Did you adjust your jumpers to fit your needs?
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my hard drives is kinda smaller... so i no thats not the deal.... its still not workin.... i changed it where both hard drives would be on different ide lines and it still dont work!!???!?!?!? i even went in under properties on the second hd and tried to chge da name or drive letter and still cant see it..... also when starting up the computer it shows that the hard drive been picked up as a slave on either ide port i put it on......
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Have you run fdisk and partitioned and formatted it. Until you do this it will show up on the bios but will not be recognized by your operating system. If you have XP you do not need to use fdisk, there is some disc management software built into the OS.
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u sure there isnt a software i can use to managment my disk????? because I CANT format this drive.... its gotta be another way
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Seem like you have a power problem and/or your comp doesnt have enough juice to feed both hdds when boot up.
Do you connect power cord to both harddrives from the same wire? Try to connect each one in different wire like connect one hdd and cd-rom to one wire and connect another hdd to another wire.
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