can't find my hard drive

[Brett McLain]

Hmm they're both SATA drives set as masters.  I tried some more today 
and i'm still unable to do it.  There seems no way to make it recognize 
it.  It would SEEM that it doesn't recognize the drive when the cd 
begins its setup.  I'm not 100% sure on that....although i know for 
sure its in the BIOS and working properly and fine.  Its already set up 
with a partition in fat 32....anyone have some ideas?

-Brett

Derek Ragona wrote:


>To use the second drive you will probably need to also change a switch 
or 
>jumper on the drive changing it from a slave drive to a master.  At 
that 
>point the BIOS should show it correctly as a master drive.  In most 
BIOS 
>these days there is a setting for boot device order, you may need to 
check 
>that the second drive is in that list.
>
>         -Derek
>
>
>
>
>At 04:49 PM 9/20/2006, Brett J McLain wrote:
>>Er yeah sorry, I mean BIOS not registry haha.  It shows up fine...when 
I 
>>tried unplugging my main 80gb drive, I tried booting twice to the other 
>>drive and it would just sit there after attempting to detect DMI 
settings 
>>or some such other thing.  I found it odd because I expected an 
"Operating 
>>System Not Found" error.
>>
>>-Brett
>>
>>
>>Derek Ragona wrote:
>>>Does the second drive show up correctly in your BIOS?  Or are you using 
a 
>>>device driver to use the drive with windows?
>>>
>>>         -Derek
>>>
>>>
>>>At 03:42 PM 9/20/2006, Brett McLain wrote:
>>>>Hi, i've got a Windows XP pro computer with two drives.  Ones a 80gb
>>>>western digital raptor, and the other is a 7200.10 seagate 320gb drive.
>>>>  The 320 gb drive has two partitions....one thats 29.5 gb and is in
>>>>fat32 mode (i'm hoping to use it for freebsd) and then the rest is for
>>>>my media.  My boot and copy of xp are on the raptor.  I'm trying to
>>>>install freebsd 6.1 release but its not seeing my other drive (i don't
>>>>think?) all I can see at the install screen is my raptor drive.  I even
>>>>tried unplugging my main raptor drive and installing to the seagate,
>>>>but it says no drives found.  It discovers it in the registry and
>>>>stuff....anyone have some ideas?
>>>>
>>>>-Brett McLain
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