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Alright, well it seems yet another thing has stumped me. Im trying to add another hd to my comp. A task which i have completed many a time. Now all the sudden i put them in and wham. Nothing. They dont show up on the computer at all.... i dunno why so maybe a lil help?
 
ok..

step 1 make sure the cables are in right.


step 2 make sure they are jumpered right one hast to be master and the other slave.. Some older IDE controllers are very complaintive and require a two drive setup to b e ran off cable select (means they are master/slave depending on which is highest in chain)

step3 make sure the bios displays them

step4 What is the IDE controller on your board? CAn it support larger than 37 gb or 147 GB

if not flash the bios and maybe that helps
 
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I think with SP2 it should recognize greater then 120 GB's, also the Default IRQ for the IDE controlers are 14 and 15.
it's not an OS issue it's bios Issue.. some bios can't handle that much. does the bios detect them? if so make sure they are formatted or XP won't see them.
 
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