new hard drive plz help

[zooro]

i dont know what to do now it is installed
but can t find it and what to do next .

thank you in advance.

newbie needs your help.

[uethello]

Do you have an Windows on a CD? If so, try loading it into the CD player , then turn the Computer off and back on.

If this doesn't work, we'll have to make a disk or play in the BIOS.

[elroy]

Some more information would help. Did you replace the old drive or did you add a 2nd hard drive? What type of pc do you have and what size is the new drive?

[Bill in SD, CA]

Welcome to TechIMO!!

Yeah, we need to know exactly what you have done.

Also what OS?

Bill

[zooro]

thank you all for replying so fast

ok i added 2nd drive
i am running xp home

cpu 2GHz

1.99 GHz

512 mb ram

and the new hard drive is samsung 80gb 7200rpm

i hope this helps you to help me. thank you all

[John Prophet]

Does it show up on the dos screens when you are booting? If not you might need to go into the BIOS to turn it on.

Even before that though you need to figure out if you have it "jumpered" correctly.....did you put it on the cable with the other hard drive or on the cable with a cdrom or dvdrom? hard drives and CDroms etc have little "jumpers" on them that conect little pins and they are there to configure the drives for certain kinds of setups....for instance if the hard drive is all alone on the cable by itself then the jumper needs to be in a position called "master" or possible "single". Otherwise if there is a cdrom already on the cable then the hard drive probably needs to be set to "slave"...or its possible it needs to be set to "cable select" but only if the other drive on the cable is set to that.

So tell us if its on a cable by itself or what? And you'll need to get a fkashlight and see where the jumper is set on the hard drive itself and also on the other drive on the cable.

(or skip all that and just see if it is showing up in the bios)

[uethello]

Go into "My Computer" under the start button, do you have an extra HDD now?

[zooro]

no it is not showing up in my computer only the old one.
and like i said i am nebie to this so if any one can help me step by step
it was installed by a pro but did not finish the job.

bios how do i get to it ?

[John Prophet]

usually you hit the "del" key while booting....once youre in you just need to go to "standard cmos"...and make sure all 4 things are set to "auto"

by "all 4 things" I mean

primary master
primary slave
secondary master
secondary slave

depending on how he hooked it up it is probably the primary slave or secondary slave.

you probably already have the old hard drive listed as the primary master and probably your cdrom listed as secondary master....so you need to set "primary slave" and "secondary slave" to "auto" and see if it then detects the new drive...you have to hit "esc" to get off that screen and then "f10" to save and exit the bios altogether.

When its booting you can see if you look quickly, all the drives it detects...it probably will say "detecting ide drives" and it will list them in order same as the bios did.

If you set everything to "auto" and it still doesnt detect the new drive, then probably the jumpers need setting as I said earlier.

[zooro]

thanks again but i keep hitting del and nothing happens.