Help with installation of additional hard drive

mandi_moles

Hello.
I have a problem and im hoping somone clever can help me out..
As my C drive was/is only 40gb I decided in my wisdom to buy a larger drive for all my music, pictures etc to free up space so windows can function better !
Its installed ok and now loaded up with lots of stuff.
My problem is...
If I am playing music from the new drive but then start to use anything from the drive (eg. downloading somthing to it whilst listening to music from same drive) my music becomes distorted and very bitty !!
This happened to me before when I installed my old hard drive to my new pc but I just assumed it was the old hard drive and took it out, binned it.
Why is this happeneing ? is it possible I did somthing wrong when I installed it ? Im guessing its either the little pins set up wrong on the back of the hard drive itself or some little box somwhere which i need to change ! please help, im a novice at installing hardware.
Mand

zacspeed_2

If the jumpers (the little pins) are incorrectly set, windows simply wouldn't see the hard drive.
I suspect the drivers for your sound card have been knocked out/become corrupt.
You'll need to go into device manager. Assuming you’re using XP, right click on "My Computer", click "Properties" then click the "Hardware" tab then "Device Manager". Near the bottom, you'll see a little speaker icon with "Sound, Video & Game Controllers", expand this & look for the little yellow exclamation marks. If there are some, you'll need to re-load the driver(s). If not, we'll have to look at other possibilities.

mandi_moles

Thanks for your reply.

Checked sound card... everything is tickety boo !! Ive checked most things in that area and all is fine ! All is fine when I play music off the main drive....

This is really bugging me arghhh :mad:

billywhizz

Have a look at this site and identify if you have an 80 or 40 cable. Follow the advice if you have a 40 cable and make sure the additional drive is set to slave.

http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/howto_connect_ide_hd.html

If it is all correct then try getting another cable to see if that works.

mandi_moles

Thank you billy... I will check this out a bit later on.. I'll let you know.

nickmack

You didn't put the troublesome drive on the same cable as a CD/DVD drive did you?