Can't see second HDD in windows, help!

fred_easey

fred_easey

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Hi,

I've just added in a second HDD to my SHuttle. Following advice from the forum I set it as the IDE2 master, with the DVD drive slaved to it.

Anyhow, when I boot up, all 3 devices are detected, my 80gb HDD as primary master, new HDD as secondary master and DVD drive as secondary slave (as you woud expect). When Windows loads, I can see the primary HDD and the DVD drive, but not the new HDD! I tried unplugging the DVD drive and booting with just the two HDDs plugged in. Again in POST both HDDs are detected (one on each channel), but again in WIndows I can only see the primary one :(

Any idea how I can fix this?

On a secondary note, to format and partition the new HDD (assuming I get it working :) ), should I just use DOS, or is there a better / faster tool that I should download?

Cheers,

Fred
 
Ah ok. I'm now in disk management. The top part of the screen shows the 80GB HDD and the DVD drive. The 2nd HDD is not listed there. BGelow that are a series of grey boxes. The first is the 80GB HDD (called "Basic"), the 2nd is the 2nd HDD called "Unknown" and the 3rd is the DVD drive, called CD-ROM0.

Looks like I'm almost there. How do I set the 2nd HDD so that I can see it in file manager? DO I need to format and partition it? (I can't seem to find the format o partition settings in disk manager)
 
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