Hey guys,
So, I've got this old tower that I built for fun and for practice, but also to serve as a music library to be configured with my sound system.
This is what I've done:
Got an old P4 with 2Gbs of RAM, I believe, bought off some guy in town and a 40Gb hard drive. I've got XP installed on the hard drive, everything works fine.
Now, my problem, I've recently bought a 400Gb hard drive to put in it, this will be the start of the music library, but I can't seem to get it to work.
I realize this could be any number of things but I've got a decent knowledge of IT so I'll tell you what I know.
The 400Gb is wired with the same bus as the 40Gb (the latter works fine) but I can't see it anywhere. In the BIOS, I've got all these master / slave configurations that say they are supposed to auto-detect things, and they see nothing.
At work, I hooked the hard drive itself, into a USB-IDE/SATA adapter and while the computer makes a sound and acknowledges something has been connected, nothing shows ever. Seems like I bought a faulty hard drive? If it was the wires in my tower, then the adapter would have worked, no?
Listen, I'm going to keep trying to figure this out, I'll keep you guys posted but if anyone can give me a pointer or two, that would be great.
Thanks
So, I've got this old tower that I built for fun and for practice, but also to serve as a music library to be configured with my sound system.
This is what I've done:
Got an old P4 with 2Gbs of RAM, I believe, bought off some guy in town and a 40Gb hard drive. I've got XP installed on the hard drive, everything works fine.
Now, my problem, I've recently bought a 400Gb hard drive to put in it, this will be the start of the music library, but I can't seem to get it to work.
I realize this could be any number of things but I've got a decent knowledge of IT so I'll tell you what I know.
The 400Gb is wired with the same bus as the 40Gb (the latter works fine) but I can't see it anywhere. In the BIOS, I've got all these master / slave configurations that say they are supposed to auto-detect things, and they see nothing.
At work, I hooked the hard drive itself, into a USB-IDE/SATA adapter and while the computer makes a sound and acknowledges something has been connected, nothing shows ever. Seems like I bought a faulty hard drive? If it was the wires in my tower, then the adapter would have worked, no?
Listen, I'm going to keep trying to figure this out, I'll keep you guys posted but if anyone can give me a pointer or two, that would be great.
Thanks