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SATA/IDE hard drive problems
Name: chris1988 Date: January 23, 2006 at 09:21:39 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: Athlon XP3000+/512MB
Comment:
hi, i have a problem with a computer that has both a SATA (western digital 40GB) and IDE (western digital 120GB) hard drive, the SATA hard drive has windows installed and boots into windows no problems, however windows won't see the IDE hard drive, yet it is seen in the BIOS, the motherboard is a Gigabyte 7N400 Pro, all the BIOS is set up correctly and the hard drive is seen in there, it just doesnt show up in Windows. the IDE hard drive is used for storage only and is set as a master, but both master and slave settings wont work. thanks in advance for any help Chris
Name: bobby2809_in Date: January 23, 2006 at 09:56:52 Pacific
Reply:
put the sata hdd as master and use the ide hdd as slave...use the link to add the second hdd...http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/howto/install_xp_disk_mgmt.html ...good luck...bobby
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Response Number 2
Name: chris1988 Date: January 23, 2006 at 10:42:54 Pacific
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thanks for that, is there any way of doing it without formatting the drive? i have approx 80GB of files that i need or is that way the only way to do it?
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Response Number 3
Name: tropic Date: January 24, 2006 at 07:25:05 Pacific
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It's a WD pata drive... remove the jumper completely if you're going to use it as a master with no slave present.
After that, boot into Windows and let us know what shows up in Disk Management.
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