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**Done_Fishin** · 11-26-2006, 04:02 PM

Go into BIOS and select the first page where the clock adjustment and everything is shown

look at the Hard drive selection, make sure that all are set to AUTO. You may need to "open" the setting by moving down to the selection and pressing the "enter" key.
If it doesn't show anything try hitting search button .. sorry haven't got the manual in frnt ofme so can't remember the actual wording.
Normally, whether master or slave providing you have selected the right box to open, it should find the drive.
Hopefully you remembered to put the power cable in too!
I have found on my P4S800D that the drives are recognised regardless of whether a Master is present or not. The drives are also accessible from XP in this way.
It would be preferable though if you change it to the Master position.

btw, windows won't recognise it until you go into administrative tools, computer manangement, disk management, look for the drive which will be shown but unallocated and unformatted.
right click with your mouse on the drive and click format.
Hope you have at least SP1 before you do this.

just realised that you are using Win2K, check that your uptodate with service packs, I am not aware which SP it is you'll need to support LBA48.

11-26-2006, 04:02 PM	#3 (permalink)
Done_Fishin Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Brit living in Greece Posts: 7,399 OS: WinME, WinXP Pro SP3, Win7 Beta, Ubuntu 9.04 & Netbook Remix & CD2USB, Mepis 6.5, Fedora 10 My System	Go into BIOS and select the first page where the clock adjustment and everything is shown look at the Hard drive selection, make sure that all are set to AUTO. You may need to "open" the setting by moving down to the selection and pressing the "enter" key. If it doesn't show anything try hitting search button .. sorry haven't got the manual in frnt ofme so can't remember the actual wording. Normally, whether master or slave providing you have selected the right box to open, it should find the drive. Hopefully you remembered to put the power cable in too! I have found on my P4S800D that the drives are recognised regardless of whether a Master is present or not. The drives are also accessible from XP in this way. It would be preferable though if you change it to the Master position. btw, windows won't recognise it until you go into administrative tools, computer manangement, disk management, look for the drive which will be shown but unallocated and unformatted. right click with your mouse on the drive and click format. Hope you have at least SP1 before you do this. just realised that you are using Win2K, check that your uptodate with service packs, I am not aware which SP it is you'll need to support LBA48. __________________ . . I'm not old!! I'm age impaired .. D_F I DON'T PLAY GAMES How to mark your thread as solved HDD DIAG UTILS TSF's Photographer's Corner Last edited by Done_Fishin; 11-26-2006 at 04:08 PM.