Please Help me.I have a problem with my second Hard drive :(

[CuteeJazz]

Hi ,

I bout a second hard drive (seagate 120 Go Barracuda 7200.7)

It has been reconized by the computer but there is a problem :

I can't see th e second hard drive on the work post.

I checked the bios in order to see if it works.But when I restart th e computer I see nothing

Please help me to find a way to this problem

P.S:don't pay attention to mistakes

[SilverZero]

you say it has been reconiced by your computer, but cant see it in workplace and bios? thats strange, how do you know then it has been reconiced? hav you tried to go into bios at staurtup and select the options dedect new hard drive?
There could be several problems:

1: you did not dedect it in bios properly
it should be your secondary harddisk by the way

2. jumper setting is not correct on the disk
set jumper to slave if it is the second disk on your primary IDE channel (connected to the same cable as your original disk is)
set the jumper to master if it is the first disk on your secondary IDE channel

3. the drive is not formated properly (not likely but could be so) run the programm fdisk, but be carefully, fdisk is powerfull and there is no undo) but usually new disks are already formated.

4. something is broken, your disk or your cable..........

but try steps one and two, it the jumper setting is not correct, the disk will not be found by the bios dedection. so be sure to have this set right

[CuteeJazz]

Thank you for reply SilverZero.

I finally found a solution. I made a right click on the post of work, then I went in the management of the computer. I created 4 partitions of 30 Go and formatted at the same time the new disc.

P.S: Yes the new disc was recognized by the bios system

[kee-lo_]

Hehe you beat me to it Cutee Jazz.

[CuteeJazz]

Yes Kee-Lo
How are you ?Fine

I have an other problem
This Hard drive show me only 111,79 Go instead of 120 Go

Is it normal :smileyhypnotized:

It's a seagate 120 Go Barracuda 7200.7 with 8 Mo of buffer memory .

Here's the reference: ST3120026A

[William]

Yes , it is normal.

Hard disk manufacturers quote the unformatted size. Formatting / partitioning loses some space.

Bit cheeky of them but thats the way it is.


Enjoy your 112Gb

William

[kee-lo_]

Hey Cutee Jazz,

I'm not too bad thanks

I think it's about right, as 30GB is 28.8GB so there is a bit of loss.

[CuteeJazz]

Thank you william for your prompt reply :smileygrin:

I will make with :smileyrolling_eyes: I have no choice :smileyrolling_eyes:

[CuteeJazz]

So what should I do Kee-Lo ?

I've just bout it the last week

[kee-lo_]

I just did a few calculations, and William's right, it's the correct size.