How to add a PATA HDD to my running PC

[sodeep63]

I added PATA HDD to my desktop which has 3 SATA HDD's & 1 DVD Writer with dual boot options of WinXP & Win7. After adding the PATA HDD on the IDE slot & start up, it appears in BIOS, but after start up read/write operations on the PATA HDD is not possible. How do I correct this in WinXP OS, since it does not even register, but in Win 7, it Shows up in BIOS & in My Computer window, but read/cut/write operations on the PATA HDD is not possible. However it can copy data from PATA HDD.??

 

[captaincharisma]

what happens when you try to do any of that on the PATA HDD? do you get any error messages?

 

[evongugg]

Do you have the jumpers right on the PATA hard disk?

 

[ss202sl]

How is it formatted? Win 7 will see NTFS and WinXP will not. You may have to initialize it in Win 7 before it will actually see the file system. You would probably need to reformat it (FAT32) to get it to work in both XP and Win7.

 

[cklaubur]

How is it formatted? Win 7 will see NTFS and WinXP will not. You may have to initialize it in Win 7 before it will actually see the file system. You would probably need to reformat it (FAT32) to get it to work in both XP and Win7.

Wha?

XP can read NTFS just fine, being based on the same Windows NT code as Windows 2000, Vista, and 7.

To the OP, does the drive show up in Disk Management on XP?

Casey

 

[captaincharisma]

How is it formatted? Win 7 will see NTFS and WinXP will not. You may have to initialize it in Win 7 before it will actually see the file system. You would probably need to reformat it (FAT32) to get it to work in both XP and Win7.

*buzz* only windows 9x is unable to see a drive formatted in NTFS.

 

[silvermink]

Didn't one of the service packs add NTFS compatability to windows 98? Maybe not format but at least read.

 

[OhSnapWord]

What you need to be mindful of in PATA drives are the jumper settings and which plug on the cable you're plugging the drive into. A PATA cable usually has three plugs on it; two of which are relatively close together. The one at the far end of the cable, not close to the middle plug connects to the motherboard, the one in the middle is for the slave drive and the one on the end, closer to the one in the middle is for the master drive. Make sure you have the master drive connected and that the jumpers on the drive are set to Cable Select.