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Jupiter





PostPosted: Tue Dec 23 18:35:51 CST 2003 Top

Windows XP Hardware >> Add 3rd HD XP Ex[lorer will not recognize 3rd HD just added.. Is
there a limitation of two HD?

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Steve





PostPosted: Tue Dec 23 18:35:51 CST 2003 Top

Windows XP Hardware >> Add 3rd HD No you are not limited to two HDs. Do you have the jumper set correctly?
Have you partitioned and formatted the new drive?
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Cari





PostPosted: Tue Dec 23 18:38:35 CST 2003 Top

Windows XP Hardware >> Add 3rd HD No, but no version of Windows can 'see' an unformatted and unpartitioned
drive.

Right click on My Computer select Manage. On the following screen, select
Disk Management. Provided the drive is correctly identified in the BIOS, it
will now appear on the right hand side of the screen, from where you can
paritition it, format it and assign it a drive letter.

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rfjoyce





PostPosted: Tue Dec 23 19:02:47 CST 2003 Top

Windows XP Hardware >> Add 3rd HD jumper set to slave.. XP will recognize new drive if I
remove ribbon from 2nd drive.. and still only recognize 2
drives.. drive is formatted and partitioned.
BJ

>-----Original Message-----
>No you are not limited to two HDs. Do you have the jumper
set correctly?
>Have you partitioned and formatted the new drive?
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Steve





PostPosted: Tue Dec 23 20:53:52 CST 2003 Top

Windows XP Hardware >> Add 3rd HD Post back and tell us exactly how you have the drives connected. Two on one
IDE controller as master and slave, jumpered correctly? The third on the
other IDE controller? Anything else on that controller, such as a CD drive?
How are they jumpered?

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> jumper set to slave.. XP will recognize new drive if I
> remove ribbon from 2nd drive.. and still only recognize 2
> drives.. drive is formatted and partitioned.
> BJ
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >No you are not limited to two HDs. Do you have the jumper
> set correctly?
> >Have you partitioned and formatted the new drive?
> >--
> >Steve C. Ray
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Yves





PostPosted: Wed Dec 24 10:08:33 CST 2003 Top

Windows XP Hardware >> Add 3rd HD Only 2 drives (one master/one slave) per IDE cable is allowed.

Some master drives have a jumper setting which tells the drive that there is
a slave drive on the same cable.

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spikejoyce





PostPosted: Wed Dec 24 13:37:04 CST 2003 Top

Windows XP Hardware >> Add 3rd HD recognition of hard drive has to to with bios of computer.
Dependant on correct installation of hard drive
Are we using ide drives or other?