Hello all.
New to the form - I hope you guys can help me out.
I was going to buy a new PC and give my old one to my young (8 and 11) boys for light games and school work but I am stationed overseas for the next 3 years so I thought I would wait. A friend of mine gave me a Dell Dimention 2400 sereis desktop:
Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
Widows XP
80 GB 7200 ATA HD
512K of Ram
48X CD Drive
16X DVD Drive (Not working - wont eject)
3.5 inch floppy drive.
200 W power supply
So I tossed the floppy drive, tossed the CD Rom, replaced the DVD Drive with an 8x I had laying around, bought 2 gigs of Ram (not here yet) and a 320 GB drive.
I have reinstalled XP on the 80 GB drive and I put the new drive in the slot for the old 3.5 inch floppy. I used the cable coming from the motherboard to the DVD drive and then I put it on the new hard drive. The PC is not letting me access the new HD. I checked the boot sequence, it's not there. The device manager sees 2 drives though. Could this be a driver issue (I haven't hooked it up to the internet yet).
Thanks for the help!
New to the form - I hope you guys can help me out.
I was going to buy a new PC and give my old one to my young (8 and 11) boys for light games and school work but I am stationed overseas for the next 3 years so I thought I would wait. A friend of mine gave me a Dell Dimention 2400 sereis desktop:
Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
Widows XP
80 GB 7200 ATA HD
512K of Ram
48X CD Drive
16X DVD Drive (Not working - wont eject)
3.5 inch floppy drive.
200 W power supply
So I tossed the floppy drive, tossed the CD Rom, replaced the DVD Drive with an 8x I had laying around, bought 2 gigs of Ram (not here yet) and a 320 GB drive.
I have reinstalled XP on the 80 GB drive and I put the new drive in the slot for the old 3.5 inch floppy. I used the cable coming from the motherboard to the DVD drive and then I put it on the new hard drive. The PC is not letting me access the new HD. I checked the boot sequence, it's not there. The device manager sees 2 drives though. Could this be a driver issue (I haven't hooked it up to the internet yet).
Thanks for the help!