Adding second hard drive

[attybo]

I have a Seagate Barricuda SATA, 120G as my primary hard drive (model ST3120827AS). I have a second hard drive (Seagate Alpine, 120M, Ultra ATA/100, Model ST3120026A) I want to add, as a backup, keeping the SATA as my boot drive and primary drive. Problem is that after hooking up the IDE cable and molex power connector, I boot up and no drive is recognized in Windows other than the original SATA. The ATA doesn't show on my boot screen either. My BIOS is set to autodetect and the jumper was set to cable select, but nothing.

Any help would be great.

[glc]

Are you using an 80 wire cable select cable?

[attybo]

Yes I am.

[Cricket]

Which motherboard are you using? Make and model please.

In fact, what are the complete system specs for this computer? Is it home built or a name brand PC?

Cricket

[faint545]

I would probably use jumpers instead of cable select since jumpers is more along the lines of.. you know it's set to slave or master as to with cable select you kind of have to guess...

And specs would help...

[freakitchen]

Originally Posted by faint545 I would probably use jumpers instead of cable select since jumpers is more along the lines of.. you know it's set to slave or master as to with cable select you kind of have to guess... And specs would help...

Not really. Cable Select IS a jumper position on drives. It means that the drive will take take master/slave depending on where it is on the IDE cable. Setting it this way means that you cannot 'go wrong', and mix up cable position and jumper settings.

Indeed, I believe 80-wire cables are supposed to be used with cable select jumpering. 40 wire cables, on the other hand, require master/slave jumpering.

FK

[needhelp]

I dont know if this may help but I had a similar problem recently when I tried to install a second hard drive on my system. I could see the drive recognised in POST but when windows loaded, there was no secondary hard drive. The problem was the hard drive I was using as a secondary hard drive was raw with no primary partition. I overcame the problem by booting the computer with an ME boot up floppy and at the a: prompt ran fdisk. when the fdisk screen came up I had an option to change the drive. (option 5 on the menu) So I selected that option and sure enough the missing drive was there and listed as raw. This is why windows wasnt recognising the disc. (I run XP on this computer)
I created a primary partition on the disc and exited fdisk
I booted up XP normally and the second drive was now recognised showing up in my computer and accessable through Disk Management I formatted the drive from there (Disk Management) and it worked fine.
This may not be what is happening in your case but worth a try. It worked for me.
Good luck

[glc]

You shouldn't have to fdisk it - you should be able to do it all in Disk Management.

[needhelp]

Thanks glc, I will remember that for next time.