NT4.0 not seeing 2nd harddrive

[msimmons]

I have two hard drives set to cable select, the bios is set to auto detect. The bios finds them at boot, and when I was installing NT4.0 it saw both but now if I go to "my computer" only the master is there...
any ideas?
thanks
michael

[Emo]

Did you check to make sure only one is master and the other slave??

-Emo

[filburt1]

Partition it

[Guv]

I have never used Cable Select. Always used jumpers to select Master & Slave. Master should be at end of the cable, assuming both drives are on one IDE port.

Might Cable Select require a special cable? I do not think the problem has anything to do with the OS.

Did you use Fdisk to establish partitions? Are both disks formatted?

Before doing anything, see if Fdisk utility can see both disks. If not, it is a loose cable, incorrect jumpers, or some other hardware problem. If Fdisk can see both, maybe you merely need to create partitions on the second disk. Then format whatever partitions you created.

[msimmons]

EMO - they are both cable select (according to the data on the maxtor site)
filburt1 - I partitioned the master because WinNT said it would like me better if I did a 2048mb partition in FAT and i did the reamining of that drive in ntfs. I never did format or partition the other... what format do you suggest?

[Guv]

Run Fdisk utility to create partitions in all free space on both drives. Unless you are doing something special (like a multi-Os system), only make one primary partition on each disk. Put the other space into an extended partition.

Fdisk has all the options to do the above.

You can have one big partition on each disk, but if they are large disk, it might be better top have several partitions on each.

[msimmons]

things are a bit wierd now... I can see my C: (2047mb) and D: (should be 1985mb because is the remainder of a 4 gb drive) but d: shows as 0bytes.... and thats not all... i now have e: (1st partition in the 2nd drive, set to 2047mb also) but thats all (missing 18gb)... any clues?
michael

[msimmons]

never mind i got it :)
thanks a bunch
michael