* Thomas Blasejewicz
I installed OpenSUSE in one HDD and connected a second HDD, but this does not seem to be recognized. Neither setting the jumper switch on that HDD to "slave" nor "cable select" does help.
Does your BIOS recognize the drive?
I tried (previously, with that HDD as master) to install another Linux version on that second HDD but failed. Now I want to format that disk and try again. Trying a "new installation" somehow does not work. I get a number of error messages. I suspect, that some files from the previous installation are left there and are "in the way". Therefore I imagined that formatting the disk might help ...
If your system is *not* recognizing the drive, formatting will *not* help.
Where do I look for that disk? And when I find it, how do I format it?
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