Can't see second HDD in windows, help!

[fred_easey]

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

 

[Paul11]

in windows..

administrative tools, computer management, disk management.

you should see it in there and be able to format/partition

 

[fred_easey]

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)

 

[fred_easey]

ok don't worry, I figured it out

Thanks for your help with this

 

[Paul11]

cool