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December 5th 07, 12:03 AM
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2nd HDD in vista
Hi
Just built a system with a SATA HDD as the boot disk and a DVD drive on the IDE cable. I've just added an IDE HDD on to the same cable as the DVD and although the BIOS recognises it's there when Vista boots it can't seem to find it. Do I need to move the jumper on the back of the Drive to Slave (it's currently on Cable Select) or would I be better getting an IDE-SATA convertor and using the spare SATA socket on the MB? Or am I just being totally dense and missing something really obvious? Cheers in advance for your help 
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December 5th 07, 12:12 AM
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2nd HDD in vista
Just thought, the disk had been used in a Netgear network drive, so would
have been formatted in a different way to Windows - if I go to Disk management and create a partition would that solve the problem do you think? "Martin W13" wrote: Hi Just built a system with a SATA HDD as the boot disk and a DVD drive on the IDE cable. I've just added an IDE HDD on to the same cable as the DVD and although the BIOS recognises it's there when Vista boots it can't seem to find it. Do I need to move the jumper on the back of the Drive to Slave (it's currently on Cable Select) or would I be better getting an IDE-SATA convertor and using the spare SATA socket on the MB? Or am I just being totally dense and missing something really obvious? Cheers in advance for your help
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December 5th 07, 01:03 PM
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2nd HDD in vista
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December 5th 07, 11:01 PM
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2nd HDD in vista
you are most welcome, enjoy the 2 hard drives.
by the way, you might consider moving the page file to the second hard drive. "Martin W13" wrote in message ... Thanks for the help, that's exactly what I've done and it works perfectly. Thanks again "mikeyhsd" wrote: unless there is something you need to save on it, I'd partiation and format it. "Martin W13" wrote in message ... Just thought, the disk had been used in a Netgear network drive, so would have been formatted in a different way to Windows - if I go to Disk management and create a partition would that solve the problem do you think? "Martin W13" wrote: Hi Just built a system with a SATA HDD as the boot disk and a DVD drive on the IDE cable. I've just added an IDE HDD on to the same cable as the DVD and although the BIOS recognises it's there when Vista boots it can't seem to find it. Do I need to move the jumper on the back of the Drive to Slave (it's currently on Cable Select) or would I be better getting an IDE-SATA convertor and using the spare SATA socket on the MB? Or am I just being totally dense and missing something really obvious? Cheers in advance for your help
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