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Help with Installing two hard drives

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Dec 23, 2007
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Help with Installing two hard drives

Hi good people.

Question with installing an Ultra ATA hardrive into a computer that already has a Serial ATA hardrive as the main drive with the OS. I understand that they have different connectors.

I have gone into the Bios and made sure IDE Configuration was set to enabled.

When i boot up, there is no other harddrive. The Ultra ATA drive does not show.

Can someone help me trouble shoot this. I would be very grateful.

Thanks!

O
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is it a IDE drive? if so the jumpers may be wrong on the pins.

if its a sata drive, your in the wrong part of the bios.

IDE== long ribbon plus power cable
SATA -- small ribbon and small power cable.
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It is a IDE. I have checked the jumper pins. It is set to slave. There is no sign of the drive in drive management in WIN7 or in the BIOS either.

I am all ears for suggestions
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octapuss wrote: It is a IDE. I have checked the jumper pins. It is set to slave. There is no sign of the drive in drive management in WIN7 or in the BIOS either.

I am all ears for suggestions

whats the pins on the current drive set to?

set them both to cable select if they are seperate IDE cables.
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current drive is Serial ATA. There doesnt seem to be a need to set the pins on that one.
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then set the new drive to cable select and see if it picks it up.
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no luck with the cable select. any other ideas
thanks
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If I understand you correctly, you have one IDE and one SATA hard drive. Set the jumper on the IDE drive to Master. Nothing to set on the SATA drive as they're one cable to one drive. That should do it. If not, go into your bios and see if there's an auto-detect option for the IDE drives.

Clarification: You set it to master because it is the primary/only device on the IDE cable. If there were another device sharing the cable, the second device would need to be set as slave.
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Have the drivers for the IDE controller been installed? It would show up in Device Manager either under "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" or "SCSI and RAID Controller".

Post what mainboard you have, if you don't get it figured out.
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octapuss wrote: Hi good people.

Question with installing an Ultra ATA hardrive into a computer that already has a Serial ATA hardrive as the main drive with the OS. I understand that they have different connectors.

I have gone into the Bios and made sure IDE Configuration was set to enabled.

When i boot up, there is no other harddrive. The Ultra ATA drive does not show.

Can someone help me trouble shoot this. I would be very grateful.

Thanks!

O
You have enabled IDE support in BIOS, but also make sure that the "drive list" (usually on the main BIOS screen) is not set to "None" or similar. Change to "Auto" or force detect to confirm that it is visible at the hardware level.

You are connecting the ribbon cable, but are you also connecting the power cable? Just checking. ;)
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Sep 20, 2004
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Try


Click on Start
Right click on My Computer
Manage Drive or Disk Management

your new hard drives need to be initialized and maybe formatted for them to show up on My Computers. You can also partition them from there.

Edit: sorry i didn't see your previous post that your checked Disk Management.... ignore my post lol
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fastlayne wrote: You are connecting the ribbon cable, but are you also connecting the power cable? Just checking. ;)
I would double-check the power cable too ....

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