little help with HDD please.

[Megashrap]

Ok jsut got all my new parts in hand *DROOLS* and what i would like to do is this, I have a new maxtor 40gig, I want to, and please correct me if this is wrong its just been awhile since i've had to do this.  I want to take the new oneplace it in casenext to my other one which is master, set the new one to slave, boot up open drive image, and image the brand new one with a clean install should take all but 10 min. However, ive already got the 2 drives in and working but,when i boot up in my comp. it doesent show the new one as slave, but it does in device manager so basically when i go to drive image to do this i still dont get the option to use the new hdd. any sugg.would be great, and i know im probably overlooking somethin lame that i may have missed. anyhoo, tnx in advance.

[gryphon]

you mean Windows device manager does see the new drive, but you don't see it in explorer ?

assign it with a drive letter....

[Megashrap]

you mean Windows device manager does see the new drive, but you don't see it in explorer ?

right, but i now see it using partition magic so its all showing up now.

[gryphon]

hehe . . ok. :)

maybe a bit irronic. But at the moment I just bought the new Norton Partition Magic version and am downlaoding it. . . should be done in a few sec. :)

[erjin999]

You mean the newest version, or the new version ? I thought version 8 was out a little while ago. Is it the first one released after Symantec brought them out ?

[Megashrap]

OK this will be little off topice but oh well, got it all working great, now in BIOS,since im not htat familiar with this mobo and it is a good one with OC abilitties so maybe someone could gimme some setttings advice for this one for OCing via bios.

using a amd athlon xp-barton 3000+ with mobo Gigabyte--7VT600-RZ(-C)

[Nyarlathotep]

OK this will be little off topice but oh well, got it all working great, now in BIOS,since im not htat familiar with this mobo and it is a good one with OC abilitties so maybe someone could gimme some setttings advice for this one for OCing via bios.

using a amd athlon xp-barton 3000+ with mobo Gigabyte--7VT600-RZ(-C)

As I said many times before, if you don't know what you're doing, don't do it at all. One thing set wrong and you screw your comp. Again, don't...