2nd hard drive stalls PC

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4th February 2004
johnkay

2nd hard drive stalls PC

I have just installed a dvd writer and 2nd hard drive into my pc but on switch on it just goes to the page from which you can setup Bios but does not go any further, i.e windows does not start up. I unplugged the power connector to the second h/drive(slave, which is brand new completely empty) and the PC starts up ok. I am running windows XP and have two dvd drives on one ide connecter and the two h/drives on the other ide connector.

Any ideas what it could be?

Also I did try just adding the second h/drive before adding the second dvd drive and the PC fired up ok but when I looked on My Computer I could only see one h/drive(c drive)but in the bios there were two and in system manager also two h/drives could be seen.

Could it be that I need to install the SP1 pack for XP?
5th February 2004
urbsy

Re: 2nd hard drive stalls PC

Have you formatted and partitioned the new drive in manager?
5th February 2004
kracken

Re: 2nd hard drive stalls PC

have u set the jumpers correctly on the drives ?
6th February 2004
Leeum

Re: 2nd hard drive stalls PC

Sounds like jumpers to me
6th February 2004
sniper

Re: 2nd hard drive stalls PC

i have never seen what happens if jumpers are set wrong but gotta be worth checking them , the original HD should be set to Master , the new HD set to slave , also check in BIOS what it thinks is on the IDE channels , best setting them to AUTO
9th February 2004
johnkay

Re: 2nd hard drive stalls PC

I found out the problem, my fault the ide cable was reversed, all I had to do was unplug the connector from mobo & plug the opposite end connector to mobo.

Also thanks to:

urbanmiffs

about telling me about drive manager, using drive manager has made the new hard disk appear in My Computer.

I have transfered one film from one hard drive to another and it took ages, about 1.5 hours for about 5G, my proccessor is 1.4 Duron & 256m RAM, it seemed to long to me.
14th February 2004
eblaster101

Re: 2nd hard drive stalls PC

what you expect you got 4 hard drives on 2 channels got ebuyer and sort your self a IDE-PCI card that should speed things up
19th February 2004
secretagent

Re: 2nd hard drive stalls PC

Quote:

Originally Posted by amepani

what you expect you got 4 hard drives on 2 channels got ebuyer and sort your self a IDE-PCI card that should speed things up

if you just want to use second drive for storage only you have to take out all the jumpers from the back of that drive