[Ham-Computers] WINDOWS XP doesn't see HD

[David M. Colburn]

Don wrote:

>as for other software none to be had this drive again was PRI MASTER
>till I stuck the 40 gig in as pri master
>and it worked fine all I did was jumper it to be pri slave by removing the
>jumper from pin 50
>and leaving it blank
>  
>

OK, this *may* be the source of the problem.

There are certain drives that will not function as
slave drives.  They generally are manufacturing
seconds that are sold on the secondary market.

Also, are you certain that your cables are connected
from motherboard to the drives in the proper order?

Have you checked your BIOS settings to be sure it
has the drive set up with the correct values?

It is probably something simple that you'd normally
catch but you now will need a second set of eyes on
it because you have been staring at it too long ...
been there done that!

HTH ... 74, doc kd4e