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Dell Dimension 4600, Model DMC, MTC2

This is a New Western Digital 250GB hard Drive. Funny, when I had this hard Drive as Primary Slave and the original 80GB as Primary Master - that came with the Dell - they both don't show in in Disk Management. Only the DVD/CD shows. The 80GB shows in My Computer but the 250GB doesn't. Of course the DVD/CD is in My Computer.

In fact, the 80GB doesn't not show at all in Disk Management when it on its own with Jumpers either at Cable Select or as Primary Master Jumper.

In Dell BIOS the 80GB shows as Hard Drive but the 250GB shows as OFF.

This is my daughters Dell. She gave it to me. I want to put Windows XP Pro on the bigger hard drive, make it Primary Master and the 80GB as Primary Slave. The 80GB will be too small for all what I have on my Ancient Evesham Computer - 11 years old - which I have upgraded to the limit.

As the 250GB is not in My Computer, in the BIOS or in Disk Management I can't do anything to it.

Dells are awful. I can put the Jumper on Cable Select, Primary Master, on its own and it boots up and works, appears in My Computer and BIOS but not in Disk Management.

Yes, it's on the end of the IDE Cable

Thanks

Shikaree

My daughter's Dell but she has given it to me. Both the old 80GB original Hard Drive and the new 250GB hard drive are IDE.

I have been told that Dell Computers are awful machines to try and upgrade. My daughter has had this machine for some time now so can't go to Dell Help.