Local Disk (C:) (C:)

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I have just finished installing a second hard drive in my system. When I was all done I went to 'My Computer' and opened the screen and this is what I found. All of my drives are named properly except for the C drive it has a name 'Local Disk (C:) (C:) ' I don't understand why this came up but when I access the properties it said there was nothing on this drive and I no there is. My system has an  A drive, Cdrive that is going to be my slave drive when I get it working,aD drive CD reader, E drive that is a CD reader writer and a F drive that is the master drive.  At the present time I can use the computer but am unable to load any thing into the C drive. Hope some one out there has some good ideas or knowledege because I am lost on this one Thanks

tgsmith · Answer

Huffy47,   Please give Dell model, and the manufacturer and model number of your hard drives.  Hard drives have a drive jumper table printed on the label.  Newer IDE (PATA) hard drives are normally jumpered as CS (Cable Select). Jumper both the primary and secondary drive as CS.  Primary drive is on the end connector of the data cable.  Secondary drive is on the center connector of the data cable.  Master/Salve jumpering doesn't always work when drives are made by different manufacturers and/or have substantially different capacities.   Tony

HUFFY47 · Answer

The system is a Dell 4550 and I am running it as Cable Select on both drives. One wich is a 80 GB western digital and the other one is a 60 GB IC35L060AW207-0. I running XP and the system is a P4. Thanks

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