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ridcully

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Mixed hdd's
« on: July 08, 2007, 07:21:22 AM »
 Anyone know if it's possible to add ide drives to machine that is already running a sata drive? if it is, how do I make the ide drive visible and usable?
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The Saviour

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Re: Mixed hdd's
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2007, 07:23:44 AM »
Yes, you can...

Does your motherboard have an IDE slot?  No?  Buy an IDE board for one of the PCI slots on your motherboard.
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ridcully

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Re: Mixed hdd's
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2007, 07:26:40 AM »
Yes there are two ide and four sata

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ridcully

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Re: Mixed hdd's
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2007, 07:48:59 AM »
Okay, the ide drive's in and according to the device manager it is "working properly". only problem is it don't show up anywhere. anyone got any ideas ???
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The Saviour

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Re: Mixed hdd's
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2007, 08:06:19 AM »
What operating system?  What is the make and model of your hard drive?

If this is a blank drive...you'll need to partition and format it.
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ridcully

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Re: Mixed hdd's
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2007, 06:35:27 AM »
XP pro, Diamondmax plus 8, the drive full with data that I need to access do formatting isn't needed. my old machine that it came from was XP pro, this was a slave.
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Re: Mixed hdd's
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2007, 06:40:25 AM »
What file system was the old (& new) HDD on?

If one is NTFS and one FAT32 the FAT one won't see the NTFS (or vice versa, I forget... they don't like each other anyway)

Although, if it's showing in Device Manager, I doubt thats the problem.

Does the BIOS recognise the IDE HDD?
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ridcully

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Re: Mixed hdd's
« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2007, 11:15:36 AM »
Ntfs on both. And yes Bios did recognise it.
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The Saviour

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Re: Mixed hdd's
« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2007, 11:22:34 AM »
Is it still configured as a slave?  If so, try setting jumpers to Master.

Just a heads up...confirm boot device is the SATA drive that has the OS installed.

Post results, please...
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ridcully

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Re: Mixed hdd's
« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2007, 07:58:46 AM »
drive is set to cable select.

 yes the sata drive is the boot device
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The Saviour

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Re: Mixed hdd's
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2007, 08:07:08 AM »
If it's still not recognized using cable select jumper settings...did you try master as I suggested in previous post?
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mundesley

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Re: Mixed hdd's
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2007, 09:46:09 AM »
Is the drive showing in disk management, if so has it been assigned a drive letter, and does it show as "active"?
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