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| Thread ID: 71172 | 2006-07-28 09:29:00 | IDE HardDrives not recognised | zky (8997) | Press F1 |
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| 474363 | 2006-07-28 09:29:00 | I've recently had to change my hard drive as my last one (with the operating system on it) crashed, and I ended up getting a SATA drive, which works fine. I have a IDE Hard Drive that i had set up as my slave drive but despite the (many) different ways i've tried the plugs, the computer will not recognise that the hard drive is connected up. It will recognise the CDRW and DVDRom which are IDE, but nothing else. I've tried changing the jumpers (master, Slave, Slave with Master and Independent - no jumper), and i've tried it on both IDE cords and slots, but it still will not work. I also tried using the cords that connected the CDRW/DVDRom but still no luck. Uni is starting back up soon and i require the data on the Slave Drive so any help would be appreciated. Specs Motherboard: Gigabyte 915P series (Preformance Extreme Version) with 4 SATA slots and 2 IDE slots CPU: Pentium 4 Ram: 512mb Operating System: Windows XP Pro |
zky (8997) | ||
| 474364 | 2006-07-28 21:00:00 | did you plug in the power cable :D Sorry all jokes aside when you say you can't find it do you mean in the bios or in windows? and also do you have it set to master on the primary ide channel with your optical drives on the secondary? |
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| 474365 | 2006-07-28 21:45:00 | If it still doesn't detect the drive, revert to going external - USB IDE HDD cases start from around $60 (I think these acronyms are getting OOH ;)) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 474366 | 2006-07-30 04:41:00 | did you plug in the power cable :D Sorry all jokes aside when you say you can't find it do you mean in the bios or in windows? and also do you have it set to master on the primary ide channel with your optical drives on the secondary? Yes, the power cable is pluged in lol :p At the moment the optical drives are not connected. When the computer starts up it goes Detecting IDE Drives... and it comes up with both Hard Drives. Then it goes IDE scan... and it doesn't recongise anything, though it use to before i added the SATA Drive. The Bios also recognises that both hard drives are connected, with the IDE HDD on channel 0 Slave and the SATA Drive on Channel 1 Master. Windows still won't recognise that it's connected though. Does that help? |
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