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Having trouble adding IDE hard drive to SATA setup.
As the title suggests, I am having trouble getting Vista to recognize the IDE hard drive I am trying to add. I have Vista Home Basic running off of my SATA HD and want to add IDE as extra storage. I have it all hooked up, IDE hard drive is set to master on same controller as my DVD drive, but windows isn't recognizing the HD properly, it recognizes it as a new drive, but it is coming up as a floppy drive, anyone have any idea how to remedy this? Will be watching thread for next 20 mins or so, will keep up on replies and supply additional info if needed. Please help and thanks! -- obobgurubob |
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Having trouble adding IDE hard drive to SATA setup.
Well, i got it at least recognizing both disks and can access them both, but now it boots up EXTREMELY slowly and seems to run slower in general. Any ideas? -- obobgurubob |
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Having trouble adding IDE hard drive to SATA setup.
Is the drive recognized in the BIOS with the correct size?
Is there a CD/DVD drive sharing the cable with the EIDE hard drive? Is the BIOS correctly set to recognize which drive to boot from? |
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Having trouble adding IDE hard drive to SATA setup.
I think it is actually coming up at about half its actual size, 127gb when its a 250gb hard drive. I had a DVD drive sharing the cable, but could not get it to boot properly, at the moment I have my DVD unplugged entirely and IDE hard drive set as master. The BIOS has to be set correctly because I wiped the second hard drive and I can still boot properly, it just takes FOREVER and my system just seems to be running slow overall. -- obobgurubob |
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Having trouble adding IDE hard drive to SATA setup.
Hi, obobgurubob.
How old is your BIOS? Until recently - and still for some BIOSes, I think - mixing IDE and SATA (or SCSI) hard drives was problematic. Some BIOSes insisted on booting from the IDE drive if one was available, and it was a real challenge to boot from another installed drive. (Voice of experience.) Is SATA built into your motherboard, or is it an add-on? Also, "Big Hard Drives" are relatively new (about 5 years?), and older BIOSes were limited in the size HDD they could format and see; limited to about 127 GB. Many of them needed an upgrade to 48-bit address space. I'll be glad to dig up references if Google can't find them for you. Please tell us more about your computer hardware and about your BIOS. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 RC 7100 "obobgurubob" wrote in message ... I think it is actually coming up at about half its actual size, 127gb when its a 250gb hard drive. I had a DVD drive sharing the cable, but could not get it to boot properly, at the moment I have my DVD unplugged entirely and IDE hard drive set as master. The BIOS has to be set correctly because I wiped the second hard drive and I can still boot properly, it just takes FOREVER and my system just seems to be running slow overall. -- obobgurubob |
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Having trouble adding IDE hard drive to SATA setup.
BIOS should be relatively new, got the computer new less than a year ago, SATA is built into motherboard and I am running a 300gb HD on SATA, so it can definitely handle the size. Actually don't remember what type of motherboard it has in it and dxdiag doesnt say either, used a 3rd party program and got "Motherboard Properties Motherboard ID 64-0512-000001-00101111-051908-Bearlake$A0968000 Motherboard Name Unknown Front Side Bus Properties Bus Type Intel GTL+ Bus Width 64-bit Real Clock 454 MHz Effective Clock 454 MHz Bandwidth 3631 MB/s" But that isnt much help either.... I know its an ASUS, but I'm not sure exactly what flavor. -- obobgurubob |
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Having trouble adding IDE hard drive to SATA setup.
Alright, figured out what kind of MOBO i got, and downloaded BIOS update, waiting until another full format on IDE HD is done, if I don't get desired results, will try updating BIOS. -- obobgurubob |
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Having trouble adding IDE hard drive to SATA setup.
Also noticed that the drive shows the correct amount of space in Disk Management, just says half of it is unpartitioned (and I can't get it to partition) will try again after reformatting -- obobgurubob |