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Posted: 11/22/2006 6:17:59 PM EDT

I installed two new harddrives in my brother-in-law's computer. In device manager they both show up but when I bring up my computer from start menu I only get a "C" drive. Seagate drives jumpered for Master and no jumper for slave. He only had one drive installed before. Should I try a new cable?

Posted: 11/22/2006 6:41:47 PM EDT

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some drive setups require different settings. I usualy put one cs and one slave. and it USUALLY works.

Posted: 11/22/2006 7:00:45 PM EDT

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One master and one slave.

If it's XP or 2K go to disk administrator. Assign a letter and format.

Posted: 11/22/2006 7:02:01 PM EDT

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I installed two new harddrives in my brother-in-law's computer. In device manager they both show up but when I bring up my computer from start menu I only get a "C" drive. Seagate drives jumpered for Master and no jumper for slave. He only had one drive installed before. Should I try a new cable?

If they show up in device manager, all is fine. Just gotta partition and format them, no big whoop.

Posted: 11/25/2006 12:55:49 PM EDT

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I installed two new harddrives in my brother-in-law's computer. In device manager they both show up but when I bring up my computer from start menu I only get a "C" drive. Seagate drives jumpered for Master and no jumper for slave. He only had one drive installed before. Should I try a new cable?

If they show up in device manager, all is fine. Just gotta partition and format them, no big whoop.

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start- > control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management -> disk management

right click on the drive and format it (with NTFS).

eta: make sure the master drive (the one you boot off of) is on the end of the IDE ribbon-cable.

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