Second hard disk in laptop

After my long running saga with Mesh, I finally got a ide connector for the
second RAID/ide controller in my Ultima Plus 17 (Clevo).

I fitted the drive, changed setting switch from RAID to IDE and booted up.
The controller bios sees both drives, declaring them master 1 and 2 with no
slaves.

After booting with my XP cd, I deleted and created a partition on the second
hard drive.
However, XP won't see it so I can't format it.

The XP disk gives me an option to format it, but then tries to install XP.
Even if I let it, I think I might end up with two XPs on two hard disks that
can't see each other.

Also what is it with RAID drivers having to be loaded from a floppy in the
XP setup proggie ?
I don't have a floppy drive, so is there a way to load from a pen drive ?

Peter


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