Hi good people.
Question with installing an Ultra ATA hardrive into a computer that already has a Serial ATA hardrive as the main drive with the OS. I understand that they have different connectors.
I have gone into the Bios and made sure IDE Configuration was set to enabled.
When i boot up, there is no other harddrive. The Ultra ATA drive does not show.
Can someone help me trouble shoot this. I would be very grateful.
Thanks!
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Here is a picture of my motherboard.
Any suggestions would be great!
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Did you connect the IDE HD to the Blue Primary IDE connector on the MB. Is the jumper on the IDE HD set properly to Master or Slave ?
The blue ide connector is being used by the floppy drive cable. I will give it a switch and report the results.
thanks for the reply.
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I tried plugging into the Blue Primary IDE connector on the MB. It did not show up in WIN7.
The hard drive i am trying to install is Barracuda 7200.9 Ultra ATA/100 250-GB Hard Drive. I have checked the jumper settings and i have it slave. I think that is correct.
From my past IDE experiences, #1 should be floppy drive, #2 Primary IDE HD or CD/DVD, #3 secondary IDE HD or CD/DVD. floppy cable should be 34 pins & IDE cable should be 40 pins.
thanks DocBrown.
Do you think it has to anything to do with the Primary HD in this computer is a Serial ATA? It is the HD with the OS on it.
I configured it as you suggested. I was wrong. The floppy was were it was suppose to be. The CD/DVD drives and the HD's were reversed. I have switched them to the correct slots. Unfortunatley nothing has changed as far as seeing the other HD.
Is the power cable seated properly ?
I have several computers with SATA as primary & IDE secondary & vice versa, all work ok.
I have checked all of the power cables. Look good. I am in the bios now. I only see the one HD. Weirdly it is listed as the Third IDE Master. The Primary, and Secondary IDE master are showing Not Detected. I am a bit of a rookie in the bios. Is this normal?
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