Secondary HDD isnt shown in my computer?

Tyrell · Mar 14, 2006

i recently built this p3 system its running windows 98se...lol dont laugh

everything on the system is running fine, just recently i decided to add my secondary HDD from my other computer to the p3 system becuase i want to be able to listen to all my music files.

anyways i installed the hardware (correctly) lol so dont ask to to check the cables or jumper cuz they are set in the correct position.

wierd thing is when i click on my computer, only my C drive appears... not my secondary drive..

when i go to the device manager it shows both drives. and it also says there working properly and there are no conflicts..

my guess is win98 doesnt automatically assign a driver letter ie.{F:} to the drive.

any ideas on how i could enable the driver so i can access my files?

slyfox115 · Mar 14, 2006

Right click on My Computer, click manage, then go to disk management. You should see both volumes there and assign a drive letter.

kirock · Mar 14, 2006

What size is this 2nd HDD? did you read this post: https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic36678.html

Tyrell · Mar 14, 2006

only one drive is assigned a letter wich is my C: drive

and they are both maxtor 40gb drives

kirock · Mar 14, 2006

Go into your BIOS and make sure it's detecting the 2nd HDD. It should if it's set to auto. If not check your jumpers again, again. and then finally check them 1 more time. It's easy to confuse the the up/down pic they show on these things.

Tyrell · Mar 14, 2006

k i checked the bois setting..

it is automaticaly deteced

and on the hdd it says "no jumper = slave"

Tyrell · Mar 15, 2006

but still doesnt show in my comp

Frank Smith · Mar 15, 2006

did you check under disk mangement and see if it was FORMATTED?
and did it have partitions set active?

you might need to FDISK then Format.

tdeg · Mar 18, 2006

slyfox115 said:
Right click on My Computer, click manage, then go to disk management. You should see both volumes there and assign a drive letter.

Win98SE doesn't have that handy little tool.

Only NT based does.

tdeg · Mar 18, 2006

Tyrell said:
just recently i decided to add my secondary HDD from my other computer to the p3 system becuase i want to be able to listen to all my music files.

What os was the other computer running? If it was 2000, the format of the drive may have been NTFS which 98SE won't read.

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