Ok now that you have discovered an IDE CD drive probably on Controller No 2, you might when the computer is booting up press the Scroll Lock key on the keyboard so that you can read what the BIOS is seeing, and to discover whether it thinks there is BOTH a CD and the second Hard Drive. If yes then the problem is stupid old winderz if no then
you must shut down the dog and shoot the cat with a paint brush, later
when the Drives are all lying on the floor covered with dog poo and
cat pee, look on the internet for their specifications where the
makers nowadays go to vast expense to explain in excrucaitingly booring detail where the F**ng jumper/dipswitch etc are to reset
drives to Master or Slave. Then having wisely selected SLAVE on the
new Hard Drive you may reassemble everything, reboot and shooting the
cat with the now rock hard dogs poop you may be rid of the dog as well
feeding the dead cat to it.

Perfectly plainly confusingly stupidly wrongly ... ended.


When I click on Properties for boith the IDE discs the screen that pops up declares in both cases that "this device is working
properly". But there's no way of accessing the second disc from within Windows so far as I can see. Most frustrating. And the
CD-Rom Disc is still labelled as Drive D, whereas before the reinstall it was Drive E, with the second hard disc as Drive D.

I was wondering whether there's anything useful to be done via System Information under System Tools?
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Subject: RE: Tech: My hard disk is out of reach...
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Aug 03 - 07:59 PM

McGrath,

Your D: label for the CD is probably because Windows is not recognising the hard disk. (Yes, Windows is quite capable of
recognising a device exits at hardware/control panel level but not putting a drive letter in Explorer as it doesn't know how to
read it)

As far as i can see, with everything properly recognised, your set up is:

Primary Master: 10Gb HD
Secondary Master: 40Gb HD
Secondary Slave: CD ROM

A plan you could try is to go through another Windows install but this time do not remove the cable.

Jon

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