New problem:
Okay, I got my computer up and running, yay. But, I bought 2 hard drives that are 500 GB each.
HOWEVER, my local disk says they only have 127 GB on one of them, and idk how to get the other on My Computer.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jul 21 2008, 12:45 am by grAffe.

Just do what that guy says. It won't cause problems.

New problem, updated my first post.

Out of curiosity, why do you have a terabyte of space?

Does your BIOS recognize the drives? Enter your BIOS and look for the hardware it detects on the SATA/IDE ports (depending what kind of HDs you're using).

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Out of curiosity, why do you have a terabyte of space?

pr0n. What else?

make sure the hd without the os is the slave.

Can you describe your setup to us? What interfaces are the drives using? IDE? SATA? Try downloading Hiren's Boot Disc (check for it on torrent sites...) - it has some nice partition and drive managers which might shed some light on the problem (as well as giving you a set of kickass tools for various uses).

Make sure you have XP SP2 or better and then reformat the drives. Make sure to format them as NTFS, quick format.

Some of us dont pay for our nice things, so its good to have space. ;O

How do you set a harddisc to 'slave'? I bought a new one a while ago, but haven't managed to get it to work yet, and I think that's the problem.

There is a set of pins in the back of the hard drive, like a CD/DVD drive, with a jumper than must be manually pried out and moved to a different set of pins to label the drive as master or slave. It should be outlined in your HD manual, if it came with one.

For IDE hard drives. I always forget to change the pins when I pop in a new DVD drive, though thankfully those are moving to SATA as well.

Triple booting,downloading stuffs,pr0n,and the list can go on and on .