slave HD not recognized in My Computer??

[rebelliont56]

hey guys, tonight i installed my OS on my new rig I recently built....well my pc has two HDs a master (WD raptor 74GB) and a slave (WD Caviar 250GB) the raptor is C and shows up in mycomputer etc etc is all fine and dandly but the second harddrive has the same location 0 (0) as the raptor becuase i think that that is causing this-> problem...how do i change that...cuz the in the hardware area of administrative tools it is being recognized...but not in my computer...???

please help????............

[Bucko]

In the administrative tools section, have you marked the partition as active?

[rebelliont56]

partion..i made (in the XP setup) a partion on my raptor..but not the caviar?

becuase i had no clue wat a partion was..lol

I'm assuming i need to make one?....if so how do i go about doing this?

[Spawn-Inc]

i thought sata's don't go by slave and master? partintions are usally made at the installation of a OS and you probably have one already, unless you told it not to but i'm not sure if you can.

[Bucko]

I'm assuming the HDD is already formatted? If not, you can format it here first, then mark it as active.

Go to Computer management, then right click on the drive and mark the partition as active.

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/5026/partitionot7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Here's where you will find it by right clicking on the drive. As you can see it is greyed out on mine because it is already marked as active.
You can also format the drive here by clicking on the format part of the menu after right clicking on the drive you want to format/activate.

[rebelliont56]

ill try that tommorow (the pc is already off cuz i have work tommorow and need to hit the hay)////if it doesnt work...

****!.....i never made a partion on that drive duirng OS setup..thus it was never formatted...the only formatting was for the raptor..gah....

do you know of any way to make a partition without reinstalling the os

[rebelliont56]

oh woops i didnt read the last part of ur post my b....wait were is computer mangement again...in admin tools?

[slytherock]

yes :)

[Bucko]

you would have made a partition when you installed the OS and did the first format. It's just the partition in the whole drive. In the pic I posted you can see I have two partitions on my main drive (c: main dump and H: the hole) and one big partition on the other drive (d: the big one).

You shouldn't need to touch your main HDD with the OS on it though if it's your second drive that has the problems of not being seen in My Computer.

[rebelliont56]

but i didnt make a partion on my second HD...i chose not to cuz i thought i didnt need to or i dunno..crap....sigh

[Bucko]

that's fine, you can do all you need to do (make a partition/format/etc.) through the computer management section without affecting your HDD with you OS on it.
You can partition it as one big partition (ie the whole drive) or you could make a couple of smaller partitions on the same drive. It's up to you on how you want to set it up.

Was the second drive brand new? or did it have data on it coming from being in another PC?

If it was brand new, it needs to be formatted first before you can mark it active.

[rebelliont56]

its brand new its a WD cavior 250GB...while the raptor (the drive thats formatted and working) is 74GB and is being reserved for te OS and software.

[Bucko]

No problem, if it's brand new, you'll need to format it first. Go Administrative tools ->computer management ->Disk Management, then right click on the drive there and select format. Once it has formatted you'll be able to right click again like in the picture and then select "mark drive as active".

I'm also assuming these are IDE drives? Not SATA?

It makes no difference to what you have to do, but will explain why you said:

the second harddrive has the same location 0 (0) as the raptor

I'm guessing if they are both showing the location of 0, then they are both running on the same IDE cable and the Location 0 is the IDE socket you have the cable plugged into on your motherboard and no doubt the DVD drive plugged into the other IDE slot (location 1)

[rebelliont56]

nooo...these are SATA

[Bucko]

fair enough, but I wouldn't be worried about it. Wait until you format and mark as active first and then see if you have any problems.

[Bucko]

BTW, I think you should power up that PC and let it format while you go to bed. It will take over an hour to format, so you may as well have it doing it while you sleep.

[rebelliont56]

oh i would but like yea i wont beable to turn it off till like tommorow night but w/e ill just take the time tommorow lol
thanks for the help ill keep you posted

[Spawn-Inc]

so going back to my question do sata's have masters and slaves?

[Bucko]

they do, it's set in the bios. It's slightly different than IDE as there is only one drive per cable.
As he already has the primary drive working and bootable, everything else becomes a slave drive.

[rebelliont56]

unless I do RAID, (which I'm not) then everything wopuld be all...something...hmm lol

now i just gota wait for work to be over then i can see if i can fix this mess

[rebelliont56]

well sorry i havent gotten back top you helpfull guys....(ive been uber busy) but last night i didnt exactly what uyou told me and BAM i have a D:/ drive yay

thanks a bunch for your help guys..!

[Bucko]

well sorry i havent gotten back top you helpfull guys....(ive been uber busy) but last night i didnt exactly what uyou told me and BAM i have a D:/ drive yay

thanks a bunch for your help guys..!

Glad we could be of service! ;)