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  1. November 5th, 2007, 11:19 PM #1
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    Slave hard drive does not show up.

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    I added a 40 gig slave to and existing 40 gig master.
    Both show in the bios
    Both show in computer management.
    The slave does not show up in My Computer
    Why not?
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  2. November 5th, 2007, 11:36 PM #2
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    Have you've restarted your system acouple of times? You might want to set the jumpers on the hard drive to cable select.
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  3. November 6th, 2007, 12:29 AM #3
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    Is the 40gb slave blank, new drive? If so, you need to partition and format it before windows can see it.

    Go to My Computer, right click and chose Manage, when that window opens, select Disk Management. Then find your slave drive in there, right click again and chose New Partition. Follow the prompts, when it finishes the wizard it will format the drive and Windows will recognize it.

    If this was a jumper problem, it would not show in BIOS or in Device Manager.
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  4. November 6th, 2007, 10:51 AM #4
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    Yep, partitioning and formatting is the answer. You might find this article useful:

    How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks
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