Issues with a secondary HD

[Kirin]

I recently had to dump an old 180 gig seagate barracuda IDE drive cause of it supposed failing. That was the HD with my OS on it and have since moved to a new copy of XP pro and a 300 gig seagate IDE drive.

With the old 180 gig, i have been using the nearly 4 year old Hewlett Packard HD from my first PC as a secondary 60 gig drive for added space. It was still accessible under the 180 gig seagate, but when I connect it to the slave portion of my cables and plug everything in with the new HD, it either tries to boot from the Hewlett Packard drive without an OS or wont recognize the drive as there at all.

Ive tried getting the drive recognized in BIOS, and messing with the cable configuration a bit, but no luck. The PC boots fine with just the new seagate in there, and no other HD's connected.

[Cephius]

You should not need to use a master/slave configuration unless your computer is really old. Put the jumpers for both drives on CS (cable select) and try again. Your BIOS should pick up both drives, then it's just a matter of selecting the right one as your primary boot device.

[Isiolia]

Are both drives set to Cable Select via jumpers? Or do you have one (or both) of them set to Master or Single Drive?

[Kirin]

Where do i find out if theyre on Cable select or not? In BIOS? If so..where?

[Sigi]

on the back of the drive should be a series of about 6 metal pins- like so:

http://www.easeus.com/resource/image...ive-jumper.gif

put it to CS on both drives, and you should be ok from there. EDIT: the hard drive should show which jumpers to cover to make a drive Cable Select- I was just using an image to give you an idea about what to look for