[cdpaul]

Hi guys,

Firstly i need to point out that this problem occurs with xp pro as well.

I just bought a new 320gb hd to replace my old 80gb and i also have a 200gb slave in my pc.

My old hd didnt have seperate partitions but ive split my new 1 into 3 (i wanted to have xp, vista and storage). However when i set up 3 partitions and installed xp (firstly) my slave hd wasnt been recognised although it shows in device manager. So i uninstalled and installed vista in its place but the same thing has happened.

Ive also noticed that vista is only showing 1 of my dvd-roms as well.

Can anyone help please?

[darveaux]

do you have the drives jumprered or cabled incorrectly? Sounds like you forgot to change a jumper when moving it to slave->master or vice versa. Jumper Free?

[cdpaul]

The 200gb drive has always been slave and i havent touched the jumper, the new i set to "master with slave"

[Rich-M]

Maybe you accidentally loosened a cable on a dvd drive while doing that? Re-seat the cables and plugs.

[cdpaul]

ive done that :-(

[darveaux]

OK so can you give me your layout?

You have

Master Slave
320GB 200GB

CD Drive? Slave/Master?

What type of drives? IDE/SATA? Raid?

Gimme da info!

[cdpaul]

320gb master, 200gb slave both IDE on IDE0, cdroms on IDE1, same jumper configuration for 2 years.

In disc management it says the 200gb drive is "dynamic drive" and calls it foreign.

Hope that helps

[jwright8]

If you are managing multiple partitions on one HDD, you might want to look into a 3rd party software like Partition Magic.

Also, you might want to check in your BIOS and see if it's recognizing the devices as being connected before the OS even starts.