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Windows not seeing my slave drive

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by Mute, 2008/02/20.

  1. 2008/02/20
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    I have two ide harddrives, a 40gb, and an 80gb. bios will see them both, the 40 as a master, which is correct, and it sees the 80gb, as a slave, which is also correct. i formatted the 80gb, and it still won't come up in windows. what do i do?
     
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    Hi, Mute. Welcome to Windows BBS! :)

    Have you jumpered both drives correctly (40GB as "Master" and 80GB as "Slave ")? Jumper pins are on the back of each drive.

    Are the drives connected to the IDE cable correctly? Master should be connected to the end of the IDE cable. Slave should be connected to the middle of the IDE cable.

    EDIT: Be sure the computer is off when changing/verifying.

    Also, is a power connector attached to the Slave?
     
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    Yep, Everything is plugged in, jumpered properly, powered, in the correct spot on the ide cables. i've done everything i can think of. when i go into bios, is shows both the harddrives, in the correct spot, but windows doesn't see the second one :mad:
     
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    In Explorer - My Computer or both?

    Look in Disk Management (Start > run > diskmgmt.msc > Enter) - is the disk shown? Does it have a drive letter - if not assign one.
     
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    No, it is not shown in disk management.
     
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    alright, for some odd reason, it stopped showing in bios, so i plugged in another 40gb that i had laying around, and it worked first boot, thanks for all the help :)


    one more question, hd related, if i buy a sata, do i just plug it in and go, or do i need drivers etc?
     
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    Your motherboard must have SATA connections, of course and generally speaking you will need to load drivers. This can be a little tricky - for some boards it is necessary to load the SATA RAID drivers.

    Look in your motherboard manual for details of installing a SATA drive - the drivers are often on the mobo CD.
     
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    alright, thanks for the help
     
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