Hard drives not in windows but they are in bios

[BKLounger]

I have an hp xw8200 I currently have a scsi drive as the primary drive and I have two ide drives attached to one of the ide channels. I pulled th jumper on both so they are seen as slaves.

They are recognized in the bios and when i first started windowsi got a message in the bottom right of myscreen that it found the maxtors ie's but then when i go to disk management i only have the scsi drive.

Any suggestions?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Administrative tools\Computer Management\Disk Management?

EDIT: whoops, didn't get as far as computer management... hmmm

EDIT2: did you right click the properties and make it 'online' enable it?

 

[BKLounger]

basically the bios can see them but once inside windows i've got nothing nothing in device manager, nothing in disc management, the only glimmer of hope i had was the firsttime booting up aftr installing them when i was in windows. In the bottom right it looked like windows was reocgnizing them saying found new hardware maxtor blah blah blah.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

try a windows update...

be back tomorrow

 

[nvalhalla]

no conflict in device manager? Check and see if the controller is the problem.

 

[queequeg99]

Although I typically throw out the install disks out immediately after opening a drive, there has been at least one instance in which I had to use the install disk for a situation very similar to this. You might want to see if the Maxtor installation utility helps. It looks like you can download it here:

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/

Good luck.

 

[Slugbait]

Originally posted by: BKLounger
I pulled th jumper on both so they are seen as slaves.

They CAN'T be "seen" as slaves...you can't have slaves without masters.

You can't "pull" jumpers, either. That only makes them neither master nor slave.

Re-insert the jumpers into the CSEL pins on both drives. If that doesn't work, re-insert a jumper in drive A to the Master pins, and re-insert a jumper in drive B to the Slave pins.

 

[nvalhalla]

wow, I missed that. Yes, the jumpers pulled is more often "Cable Select", check the little diagram on the HDDs for jumper placement.

 

[corkyg]

Are you loading your SCSI drivers before loading Windows? What SCSI adapter are you using? What flavor of SCSI? (SCSI is really yesterday's news.)

 

[Billb2]

If the drives aren't formatted Windows can't see them.

 

[dguy6789]

Originally posted by: Billb2
If the drives aren't formatted Windows can't see them.

This.

 

[BKLounger]

Originally posted by: Slugbait

Originally posted by: BKLounger
I pulled th jumper on both so they are seen as slaves.

They CAN'T be "seen" as slaves...you can't have slaves without masters.

You can't "pull" jumpers, either. That only makes them neither master nor slave.

Re-insert the jumpers into the CSEL pins on both drives. If that doesn't work, re-insert a jumper in drive A to the Master pins, and re-insert a jumper in drive B to the Slave pins.

Winner!

The problem was i needed to set the jumper on one of the ide drives to master. I was assuming the scsi was the master. Also for clarification on these drives jumper off is slave mode. The machine sees both perfectly fine.

 

[RebateMonger]

Yeah, it sounds like you had two IDE drives on the same channel, and both were set to "Slave". On a single IDE channel, you can only have one Master and one Slave drive.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Originally posted by: dguy6789

Originally posted by: Billb2
If the drives aren't formatted Windows can't see them.

This.

is wrong.

windows explorer/my computer may not see it, but it should still show up in drive mgmt and device mgr.