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Originally Posted by Vybuni  The HDD should be on a separate IDE channel from the optical drive. A HDD slaved to an optical drive can sometimes cause problems.
As long as there are no problems with the partition or drive, Windows will have no trouble recognizing it. Set up correctly, it will show up in "My Computer."
As a sidenote, make sure you understand what is being said before correcting someone, eyeCpc. I suggested setting the 80gig IDE drive as a slave using jumpers on its own channel. I suggest slaving it so that changing the boot order in the BIOS isn't necessary. Windows won't boot from a slave drive. |
For one you can't slave an ide drive to a sata drive. On a board with only one ide channel like most newer boards now seen you would generally have at least one cd or dvd optical there unless you went with a sata model instead.
With only one ide channel available and an ide optical drive already seen there it's a little impossible to set the drive up as a slave on another channel. If the ide drive was taken out of a prebuilt system it will likely not have any jumper to set since most prebuilds have their drives set to cable select by default by simply eliminating the jumper.