Installing a slave harddrive

[Tenchiroz]

The title says it all, recently a mate of mine gave me a 120 gig hard drive, the problem is my windows does not want to detect it, but it can be detected and shows up when i start my computer. I have no idea what the problem is but i can't get it to start up a new partition, any help please?

 

[triiifashions]

move the pin

you gotta move the pin in the back to the slave slot

 

[Tenchiroz]

You sure that's it cause according to my mate he moved it back already.

 

[Tenchiroz]

It shows up as master slave in the bios.

 

[poertner_1274]

Master slave??

Is is either going to Primary/Secondary Master OR Primary/Secondary Slave.

It can't be Master Slave. So check again.
Do you know what type of drive it is? We can help you with the jumper placement.

BTW
:wave:Welcome to TechSpot:wave:

 

[Tenchiroz]

Master slave??

Is is either going to Primary/Secondary Master OR Primary/Secondary Slave.

It can't be Master Slave. So check again.
Do you know what type of drive it is? We can help you with the jumper placement.

BTW
:wave:Welcome to TechSpot:wave:

Primary slave, and it is a seagate barracide 7200.7

 

[Didou]

If it shows up at the POST, it should be available in Windows' disk management console. Go there & create a new partition.