Hard drives not showing up

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grobn

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Hi, newbie here, just completing my first build. I was looking around for places to ask a question and this looks like a very active forum with good answers.

I have built a DAW computer, for recording audio only (no internet). I have 3 hard drives: a 160 GB WD Caviar, and two Raptors, a 150 GB and a 74 GB. The plan is to put the OS and audio programs on the Caviar, audio files on the Raptor 150 and samples on the Raptor 74.

I have a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 motherboard. It has different groups of SATA connectors, each a different color. (Apparently each represents an IDE channel, but I don't even know what that means.) When I plug hard drives into the first group, they are both recognized and work fine. However, if I plug into a different group (which I have to do because there are only two connectors in the first group), the hard drive doesn't show up in My Computer. It does, however, show up in the BIOS and in Device Manager.

So, can anyone explain to me how can I get all three drives to show up in My Computer so that I can use them?

Also, I didn't do anything with the jumpers, although the two drives show up in the BIOS under IDE channel 1 as master and slave. Is that OK?

Thanks!
 
Right click on my computer and pick manage. From there expand storage and click on disk management. Find the extra drives and either initialize/partition/format them or assign a drive letter to them if that's already been done.
 
If all threes drives are sata then you are plugging the first two most likely into the Sata primary master and slave ports with the third seeing the secondary master or slave port. With two ide drive on the single ide cable you would then need a sata type optical drive to see Windows installed along with setting the jumpers on the rear according to the position on the cbale itself unless both are set by default to cable select.

WD Caviar and Caviar SE series drives come in both ide amd sata models alike. Any ide drive will see a wide 80conductor /40pin type connector while the typical sata data cable only sees 7 pins like seen in the image here.

 
Done! All three drives are SATA, and I was able to take care of it in disk management.


Thanks folks!
 
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