Comp not reading other harddrive

[.©a®ßØn.]

i have a dell dimension e510, and i bought a seagate 400gig hd, i connected it, started the comp, then it says that there are no storage devices, then when i unplug it, it reads the other harddrive. any idea how i can make it read both drives?

[SuperAkuma]

Is it an external hard drive?

Is it an internal hard drive?
-If it is an internal hard drive is it SATA cable drive or PATA(IDE) drive?
SATA cable is just ONE cable not wider than half inch and flat, kinda looks like a USB cable.
PATA(IDE) are ususally the gray flat able about 4 inch wide.

I am guessing it is the PATA and you have the jumper on the hard drive set wrong. The jumper are the little pins on the back of the hard drive, you need to set the jumper to "slave" on the new drive and "master" to the old drive where windows is installed.

Does your BIOS see the hard drive?

[.©a®ßØn.]

no i have a sata, and when i go to the system setup before it starts, it shows both hardrives, but when i start the comp it doesn't come up, and i get an /3/lxcjtime.dll error

[P0P]

try right clicking MyComputer -> Manage -> Disk Management

then try makeing it a virtual drive...might have to formant to read....

[P0P]

Originally Posted by .©a®ßØn.

no i have a sata, and when i go to the system setup before it starts, it shows both hardrives, but when i start the comp it doesn't come up, and i get an /3/lxcjtime.dll error

might be a vires
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/lofive...hp/t73035.html

[.©a®ßØn.]

Originally Posted by P0P

try right clicking MyComputer -> Manage -> Disk Management

then try makeing it a virtual drive...might have to formant to read....

it worked, thanx alot, i haven't restarted so i dont know if that error is gonna come back

[Ragnarok043]

try reformatting the drive or chopping the drive up into separate partitions.

[Type_SH RaCer]

Originally Posted by .©a®ßØn.

it worked, thanx alot, i haven't restarted so i dont know if that error is gonna come back

i guess your useing windows.

so do a start run "msconfig" go to startups
and turn off any exe apps. you have running at startup

id get soem kind of spyware remover like ad-aware and run a scan on trend micro web sigt.