Second Hard Drive not detected in WINDOWS

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leetkyle

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Samsung Spinpoint 300GB SATA. Seen as "IDE THIRD SLAVE" or whatever (you know what I mean, third bit and known as the slave, as my 74.3GB Raptor is my Master).

I tried setting my Spinpoint to Master and of course, computer did not proceed after BIOS. Put my master 74.3 and it booted fine into windows.

It says on the Spinpoint sheet:

"If your computer does not support auto detect, go into user define mode and by referring written information on the product, set the correct settings for cylninder, head and sector and if some BIOS must be, set the HDD made to LBA."

Do I really have to take this out and unplug it all just to find some information! Jumpers would be easy as I could just pop 'em in, no need to unplug anything (except the power cord to my computer, of course!)

Not located in windows. No jumper connection on it however I can add one if that's what I need to do. Not planning on installing OS, just shoving some media.. well, a lot of media on it!

Thankssss..
Kyle
 
no i have never seen a bios in almost 10 years now make you set heads/cylinders and lba mode, its all been auto for 10 years. That should not be a problem

Do you have multiple sata controllers? Probably since its on your third sata connection, it could possibly be on your sata raid controller and you would have to set in the bios for that sata controller to act in IDE mode.

double check those settings.
 
- All SATA ports are on my motherboard, don't have a PCI card in my computer for them;

- First and Second are my DVD drives.

IDE Third Master etc is what it is. Even my DFI said IDE, it always does on every board I've had so I doubt that is the problem.
 
no you are not grasping exactly what I said, probably just didn't explain it thorough enough; so I will try again.

All motherboards that have onboard SATA (like 90% of them) has have intergrated raid controllers (so there is no PCI card) built into the SATA controller on the board. Which is why sometimes you will see different sets of sata ports that are different colors. For example on my motherboard the black sata ports are the normal ones in IDE mode, and the blue ones are by default set to be raid controllers in the BIOS. Meaning if I only hooked up 1 drive it would not detect it (since raids require at least 2 or more drives) and if I didn't go into the raid controller bios on top of that and create a raid, of course windows will not see it.

My guess is either it is a defective drive, or you have the controller set wrong since your bios sees it but windows doesn't.
 
Oh, I have black, red and orange (orange is like some big safety thing)

my raptor was plugged into the red, so I did the same with my samsung. should I plug it in in the other one(s)? My motherboard is the Asus P5W DH Deluxe. Thanks and sorry for misunderstanding ;P
 
well you should be able to plug them into any sata port as long as it is configured in the bios to run in ide mode. Otherwise I am not familar with the color schemes.

No problem about that, I probably didn't explain it well enough the first time!
 
Thanks for the input. I'll report back in 15 minutes or so as I'm watching the West Wing at the moment, then I'll change the SATA cable and where it is plugged in.

edit// resorted to manual etc and still no help.. everything plugged in correctly, any thoughts?!

EDIT// speedfan detects the drive but windows does not..
 
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