40GB means it is pretty old, the manufacturer date should be on the label.
Since it is old I suspect it requires a lot more power then newer drives
especially at boot time.
350 Watts is not much power if you have a lot of drives and a current
generation HD capable graphics card and a multi core processor. 500 watts
would be more appropriate.
Try removing the other IDE drives you might find that there is then enough
power for the old drive to spin up at boot time.

"dbacs" wrote in message
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Curious;992734 Wrote:
So the problem is with one particular IDE HDD then since others work?
What is the capacily, format, and age of the drive?
For some reason it is apparently not spinning up to speed fast enough
or not
at all for the BIOS to recognize it.
Is there any possibility that there is not enough power available for
all
the devices in the system to start up and run concurrently?

"dbacs" wrote in message
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Yes that is correct.


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dbacs

Yes, this one drive is the problem. All other drives are seen in BIOS
and OS.

Capacity is 40gb. Format is NTFS. Age is unknown, but is old. Brand
is Maxtor.

Hmm, not enough power, could be possible, but i'm using 350w PSU. I
really don't have much power drain from peripherals. Largest drain
would be my graphics card.


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dbacs