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Q&A: Adding a 2nd SATA drive |
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I'm trying to install a SATA drive in my girlfriend's PC. There is already one installed, so I am trying to add this on for the time being (they want the entire drive backed up, believe there to be physical problems starting with primary drive). The new drive came in with no cable. Set me back about a day, as I had to wait to get home to find a spare cable.
Ok, so now we have 2 SATA drives installed, each having their own connection to the mobo.
Primary (boot) drive jumper is set to the far right position. (By the way, the only things I knew jumper positions for were IDE drives, and this is a different ball game)
New drive came with no jumper. Wouldn't originally recognize the disk when hooked up. Enabling Drive 1 (out of 3) in the BIOS didn't work. Rebooted, went to BIOS, and enabled ALL possible drives. At bootup, drives 1 and 3 weren't found, so I disabled them and left drive 2 enabled.
Norton Ghost sees 2 drives hooked up. A normal Windows boot sees only C:.
I played around with nearly every jumper configuration I could think of (found a spare at home for the new drive), still can't see anything more than C: from My Computer or Explorer.
However, in Device Manager, it shows 2 disk drives, neither with a problem.
I'm at a loss now, hoping one of the more experienced people here can help me out
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