ight, a while back i installed an extra 120 gig harddrive as a slave drive, it works fine, holds all my multimedia files and whatnot, so good.

this weekend i decided to do a little cleaning, formatting my HDs and whatnot. when i go to clean install windows, the only HD that shows up is C: drive, altho it has the capacity of my F: (70 for the master vs 120 slave)

one again, since it was pointing to C: drive, i didnt think anything of it, so went ahead with the install.

as my computer boots backup, everything is the same, no lost icons, no lost programs, etc. everything in my C: is intact, while my F: now has a WINDOWS folder on it.

It's not causing any problems running my PC, at least not yet.

so i restart, try to go thru the setup bluescreen (F2 on start) and its not even recognizing my extra HD on the menu.

what gives

thx in advance

8/7/2006 12:49:23 PM

that is pretty strange, try unplugging the slave, these are PATA right? Also how old is the computer?

8/7/2006 12:51:19 PM

make sure your other drive is on master not cable select... although i cannot guarentee this to be a problem ive heard of it causeing this sort of thing before.

8/7/2006 1:12:00 PM

check the jumpers, bios settings and cables, unplug the extra drive, boot, shutdown, plug drive back in, boot

odd though b/c it wouldnt work quite right at first if the settings or cables were off....

the cable select thing could be doing it....

8/7/2006 1:45:57 PM