I'm not looking to hook up a RAID config but I will add a second hard drive for storage at a later time. The WD drive is set to master with no jumpers and is on my IDE3 RAID port.

The Computer Will Not Detect a Second Hard Drive. When your computer is not detecting a second hard drive, it usually means that you've done something wrong when installing or configuring the machine.

If you have some issue due to Windows not recognizing your external hard drive, you can look at the following instructions to make it detected and usable.

So I power up my rig one evening and my 1yr old Maxtor 80gb D740X-6L starts making this awefull clacking noise that I can only describe as sounding very similar to the sound you would hear if you ...