john84 Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 hi need help i had 2 hard drives 1 c cand 1 f had to format now it dosnt show the f drive 1 how do i get it to show again i run windows xp thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Are they both set to run as the Master drive? There is a little thing that should go over two pins, it has a guideline image somewhere on the hard drive to show you where you put this.You have to set one as the Master drive, and the other as a Slave, set the BIOS to read one or they both try to boot the OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Are they both set to run as the Master drive? There is a little thing that should go over two pins, it has a guideline image somewhere on the hard drive to show you where you put this.You have to set one as the Master drive, and the other as a Slave, set the BIOS to read one or they both try to boot the OS.This will not apply if you have two SATA hard discs or just one hard disc divided into two partitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Are they both set to run as the Master drive? There is a little thing that should go over two pins, it has a guideline image somewhere on the hard drive to show you where you put this.You have to set one as the Master drive, and the other as a Slave, set the BIOS to read one or they both try to boot the OS.This will not apply if you have two SATA hard discs or just one hard disc divided into two partitions.Why not? What's the difference between SATA HDD's and others? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Good question, the only answer I can think is that the ports are numbered and it uses 1 first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Oh, so there's not a way of using two SATA HDD's at the same time as Master/Slave? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Why not? What's the difference between SATA HDD's and others?There are no Master/Slave/CableSelect jumpers on SATA drives.You may sometimes however have a jumper to restrict speeds to SATA 150 rather than SATA 300. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Oh, so there's not a way of using two SATA HDD's at the same time as Master/Slave?Yes - they have their own SATA rather than IDE connectors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 So 1 IDE w/ 1 SATA is uncompatible 1 SATA w/ 1 SATA is compatible?Sounds rather pointless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Someone else needs to explain this, but you can mix them just put them in the order you need in the bios, I think that is where you put the SATA drives in the order you need as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Oh, OK.I'll google it. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 The limiting factor is how many SATA and IDE ports you have on the motherboard.If you have enough space to fit them in, and an adequate power supply you can run 2 IDE H/Ds per IDE port and 1 SATA per SATA port. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john84 Posted December 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Are they both set to run as the Master drive? There is a little thing that should go over two pins, it has a guideline image somewhere on the hard drive to show you where you put this.You have to set one as the Master drive, and the other as a Slave, set the BIOS to read one or they both try to boot the OS. hi again they are set as c master and the f drive as was is set to slave but not showing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 StartRunType in diskmgmt.mscEnterWhen your slave drive is displayed it may say Unknown xxGBs Not Initialised. UnallocatedIf so - you need to initialise it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 It may be also you haven't set the pins properly on the HDD itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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