Re: New SATA HDD wont show in My Computer


"Rory Deol" <rdeol85@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I always seem to leave something out of the description. Thanks for
the quick response. I have Windows XP SP2 on both the 40GB and the
750GB. The 40GB and 120GB were in my old system, hence the "new build"
old OS. Unfortunately, I did not use disk manager. Trust me, I'm
really kicking myself now for not doing so considering that it seems
like the first thing I should have done. I would really like to avoid
wiping my 120GB drive as it has all of my important data on it.
However, I have no problem dumping the 40GB. Would that bring me any
closer to a solution? Its good to hear that SATA is the easier
alternative, I was just thinking that there was some conflict with
running SATA and IDE drives at the same time. I thought about the SATA
drivers and figured that if my PC could boot successfully using only
the 750GB SATA drive that there was no issue. Also I have been using
the SATA converters for two weeks with no problems. For now I won't
worry about the missing DVD drives. My current config uses the 40GB as
the master and 120GB as the slave. This boots quite comfortably, just
not while the 750GB is installed. I will go home and troubleshoot some
more tonight as I really don't want to resort to wiping the drive. One
last issue, say I get the system to boot from the 750GB drive and
everything is great, what configuration do I use for the IDE hard
drives? Both slaves? CS?

Ok, I'll take a quick stab at this --- with some assumptions since your
description of your system isn't exactly clear to my old mind.

1) I assume you want the 750 SATA to be your boot drive. Yes?
2) I assume you want to keep the 40 and 120 GB drives for access as data
drives --- not to boot from. ??
3) Hopefully your new MB has two IDE channels. If not you'll only be able to
connect two devices.

If yes to all of the above:

1) Connect your 750 SATA to the first SATA drive position.
2) Connect your old 120 GB data drive as the Master on your Primary IDE
channel ( I'm assuming it doesn't have Win XP installed on it)
3) Connect your old 40 GB boot drive as slave on primary.
4) Connect your two DVD drives on the Secondary IDE channel (Master/Slave)

This should boot up and you should be able to see everything unless I
missed something here.

If you get this far, you can tweak you IDE drive positions to improve
performance but keep your old IDE boot drive off of the Primary Master.

Good Luck

PS- This is similar to how I'm setup on my Asus board. I didn't have to
install any SW via F6 during installation of Win XP so I doubt you will
either unless you want to install a Raid setup.


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