re help installing second ide drive another possibility is that the mb one is already partitioned into two seperate drives c and d and the cmos asks for c drive and d drive setup info rather than drive and drive like most others i ve seen could this be confusing things so i need help the drive came bereft of any docs except for some info for the cmos setup the controller has a little piece of paper about the size of an index card i cannibalized the cable it s one of those with a connector at each end and the one in the middle so it looks like a serial connection now i be lost many many thanks in advance this is practically an emergency i have two papers to do on this thing for monday help william barnes suranet operations wbarnes sura net voice fax disclaimer i don t speak for suranet and they don t speak for me i ve been told by our local computer guru that you can t do this unless you perform a low level format on your existing hard drive and set your system up for two hard drives from the beginning i took him at his word and i have not tried to find out any more about it because i m not going to back everything up just to add another hdd if anyone knows for sure what the scoop is i would like to know also thanks in advance also bill willis if you bought your ide drive from a dealer you shouldn t have to perform a low level format even if the st hd is already partitioned into c and d fdisk will automatically assign the nd hd to d and change the nd partition of st drive to e check the jumper settings and cmos setup in particular the correct number of cylinders and tracks
