[johnb1963]

I have 2 hard drives installed on Dell dimension 8200 running windows xp. Both hard drives show up in both the BIOS and device manger. I can not see the second hard drive in either my computer or by opening windows explorer. I also tried to boot from 2nd hard drive and it said no boot device found, F1 retry or F2 reboot. I think it may be a problem with a jumper setting. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[EXTACAMO]

Was this drive partitioned and formatted?

 

[johnb1963]

yes, xp installed as well

 

[EXTACAMO]

Is this drive IDE or SATA? If its SATA I think the SATA drivers have to be installed at the time XP is installed.

 

[johnb1963]

ide

 

[kocuba]

Is the second ones jumpers set to "Slave"?
Does it show up in Disk Management under Computer Mangement under Administrative Tools in Control Panel?

 

[johnb1963]

Is the second ones jumpers set to "Slave"?
Does it show up in Disk Management under Computer Mangement under Administrative Tools in Control Panel?

no it does not.

 

[johnb1963]

i have to check jumpers

 

[deltafowler]

If the jumpers were wrong, it wouldn't appear in the BIOS.
What level service pack and what size drive?
Is the drive enabled in the BIOS?

 

[todbnla]

I had a similar issue recently with a PNP usb external 500gb drive that was on my old MOXI dvr, I googled the term: "how to initilize hard drive windows xp" and found instructions via the web, it worked for me, give it a try...