xp doesn't recognize 2nd hard drive

[colbert341]

hello,

I installed a second hard drive ( quantum lct15 20gb ) in a presario 5wv277.

My problem is that the bios recognize it but it does'nt appear in xp. I formatted it with partition magic 8 in ntfs and partition magic recognize it but not xp.

I tried different configuration ( slave, master, primary ide, secondary ide) but still xp doesn't see it.

The presario have nothing in the way of options in the bios, it's pretty basic so i can't do much there but the bios see it fine so i don't think the bios is at fault here.

It doesn't appear either in disk management.

Any help would be appreciated.
thanks in advance.

 

[davemar14]

Try to set your main hard drive as the master on the Primary IDE channel, and the 20GB as the slave on the Primary channel. Make sure you set the jumpers correctly. Also, see if it shows up in the device manager. You could also try the add/remove hardware in the control panel. See if the hard drive shows up there.

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