Windows not recognizing HDD 2

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Lmanovic

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Hi guys, first post here but I got a really big problem.

While ago I bought an 80gb hdd. Installed it fine with a program different from Partition Magic.

Couple of days ago I wanted to partition HDD 1. It failed, gave me some errors so after 3 hours of medling I finally formatted HDD 1 and installed windows.

But then to my suprise, when I went to My Computer I saw that HDD 2 was missing, I booted up Partition Magic and saw it refers to HDD 2 as "BAD". And also gives me this error at the start
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. But the error about the geometary has been a recurring one when formatting but never had problems with it.

Anyway, so I look at my options on HDD 2 and there's only: Set active and Format. Set active reboots my pc and gives me the same thing. And formatting gives me: error #4 bad argument/parameter.

So now I have no idea what to do whatsoever. Please help.

Thank you
Liam
 
I had that problem too, you have to set the 'jumpers' behind the HDDs correctly:
1 must be set at 'Master' and the other at 'Slave'
 
not only that go into the bios and go to the section that relates to your drives and press enter on the auto detect option for the location where the drive is installed, that will ensure the correct drive settings are used
 
@ Apokarteron:
I don't understand what you mean, do I have to do this in PM?

@ Hairy_Lee:
The bios recognizes a 81gb Hard Drive. Is that enough or do I have to take some additional steps?

Thanks
Liam
 
there was nothing in you bios that listed all of your IDE drives?
thats where it is, just open up each section and press enter on the auto detect option
 
Apokarteron said:
I had that problem too, you have to set the 'jumpers' behind the HDDs correctly:
1 must be set at 'Master' and the other at 'Slave'
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What he is saying is that you need to set each of your two harddrives up as the "master" drive and the "slave" drive. On the back of your IDE Harddrives, there will be a small jumper that you will have to place over the correct pins to do this. If you click on the link below, you will see a picture of what the jumper on the back of your harddrive looks like.

http://images.smalldog.com/buyguides/harddrive.jpg

On the casing of the harddrive should be a listing of exactly what pins to put the jumper on for each corresponding setting. Keep in mind though....in the picture in that link, for some reason, there is two white jumpers on that hdd, normally there is only one jumper.

As for the drives being/not being recognized, as stated above, you need to first establish that BIOS is recognizing the drives correctly. In BIOS, there will be a screen that will show you all hardware connected via IDE. Also, some boards can be picky in terms of how your master and slave drives are wired with your IDE cable. For example, you may be required to plug your master drive into the first connector on the IDE cable. Hope this helps, good luck.
 
Okay little update.
@ Hairy_lee: I went into the bios and to my HDD, I pressed enter on my second one but there were only configurations I could change. No such thing as auto detect. However I did do a IDE DPS self test but that resulted in the blue screen of death. So I restored Bios defaults and now it boots again.

@ Randruff: I will have a look, my uncle connected it so I don't know how it is connected. But if it's the jumpers, then the thing I don't understand is why it worked a okay in the past? :/

Edit: 1 more thing, before formatting C:\ HDD2 used to be E:\. But when I restored Windows my DVD-Rom has taken over label e:\. Could it have something to do with that?

and another thing I've been wondering. If I make a Partition Magic recovery disc. Can't I format HDD2 through that and get it working?

Thanks
Liam
 
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i think there's something amiss in the bios settings. i dont think your hard drive is set up correctly in the bios which is limiting how much of the drive is being used. whats the exact make and model of your drive?
 
Hairy_Lee said:
i think there's something amiss in the bios settings. i dont think your hard drive is set up correctly in the bios which is limiting how much of the drive is being used. whats the exact make and model of your drive?
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(taken from everest) It is:
[ Maxtor 6Y080P0 (Y2EPFMKE) ]

ATA Device Properties:
Model ID Maxtor 6Y080P0
Serial Number Y2EPFMKE
Revision YAR41BW0
Parameters 158816 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors per track, 512 bytes per sector
LBA Sectors 160086528
Buffer 7936 KB (Dual Ported, Read Ahead)
Multiple Sectors 16
ECC Bytes 57
Max. PIO Transfer Mode PIO 4
Max. UDMA Transfer Mode UDMA 6 (ATA-133)
Active UDMA Transfer Mode UDMA 5 (ATA-100)
Unformatted Capacity 78167 MB

ATA Device Features:
SMART Supported
Security Mode Supported
Power Management Supported
Advanced Power Management Supported
Write Cache Supported
Host Protected Area Supported
Power-Up In Standby Not Supported
Automatic Acoustic Management Supported
48-bit LBA Not Supported
Device Configuration Overlay Supported

ATA Device Physical Info:
Manufacturer Maxtor
Hard Disk Family DiamondMax Plus 9
Form Factor 3.5"
Formatted Capacity 80 GB
Disks 1
Recording Surfaces 2
Physical Dimensions 146.1 x 101.6 x 26.1 mm
Max. Weight 630 g
Average Rotational Latency 4.17 ms
Rotational Speed 7200 RPM
Interface Ultra-ATA/133
Buffer-to-Host Data Rate 133 MB/s
Buffer Size 8 MB

ATA Device Manufacturer:
Company Name Maxtor Corporation
Product Information http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/
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EDIT:
Oh my god, STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID :P I'm so stupid !
All I had to do was go into disc manager and give my harddrive a letter.

Now it works :P

Thanks anyway guys for your effort and willingness to help me !
 
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Follow-up:
I keep getting the blue screen of death, I think my BIOS is screwed somehow. When I try to star windows normally I get it but when I use the option 'Last settings that worked'. Windows boots op normally. Has anyone got any idea whaT I might have to do? This computer thing is getting on my nevers a little now.
 
now that you've changed the drive i think that there are areas on the disk that have been written incorrectly, if you're willing to try it i would try to repair you installation of windows.
 
Hairy_Lee said:
now that you've changed the drive i think that there are areas on the disk that have been written incorrectly, if you're willing to try it i would try to repair you installation of windows.
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Followed your advice and everything is working A-Okay. Thanks alot man ! Great help !
 
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