new disk and old disk not recognized in expolrer

jivejimmy wrote:

> had 2 disks on xp, 120 master 40 secondary master. wanted
> to add 160 additional. put the 160 on the 40 cable and now
> the 40 is not seen by explorer when back to original
> config.... Its seen by disk admin but I cant make the data
> on it accessable again....

When you put the 160GB on the cable with the 40GB, did you make sure of
three things..

1) The jumper settings for the configuration was correct on the hard drives
themselves.
2) The BIOS sees both hard disk drives.
3) The BIOS itself would support the 160GB hard drive size.

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