Adding a 3rd HD

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csnudelman

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I have a new Dell XPS 400. It has two hard drives in a RAID 0 setup. I want to add a hard drive from my old system which had 3 WD 80GB SE drives. I bought a SATA to IDE dongle. I installed the HD in an open bay, connected the power to the hard drive, installed the dongle, connected the SATA cable from the dongle to the mother board, connected a 12V (I think) lead to the dongle. A light comes on in the dongle so it must be getting power. The OS will not recognize the added drive. I tried another HD to no avail. Ideas? Thanks in advance.
 
are those formatted and did you check the bios to see if they show up or allowed sata and ide together? for the ide drives unless you configured cable select you'll need to set jumpers for masters and slaves.
 
As kof2000 mentioned, that will happen if the jumpers are set incorrectly. Also, make sure the SATA is configured properly in the BIOS, because I would assume the RAIDed drives are using one controller, and this drive is on another.
 
"are those formatted"

They were pulled from my old computer. 2 of them were used in a RAID 0 set up and the other was partitioned as two 40GB drives. I guess they would had been formatted.

"did you check the bios to see if they show up or allowed sata and ide together?"

How is this done?

Also, the instructions that came with the dongle said to set the jumper as master.
 
Thanks, I figured it out. Went into bios and "turned on" motherboard connectors that were off. Not that it's any big deal but I guess since the hard drive I'm using comes from a RAID 0 set up that the hard drive (80GB) ID's itself as 160MB with 80MB open.
 
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