Multiple Hard Drive Debacle


  1. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
       #1

    Multiple Hard Drive Debacle


    I have an extensive homemade dual boot rig. Windows 7 & Leopard.

    Problem on the windows side of the world.

    I have four internal sata hard drives and two esata drives.

    The problem drive is a seagate barracuda 7200.12 1TB.
    The operating system is on a 1.5tb seagate barracuda that is partitioned.

    One of the seagate barracuda 1TB internal hard drives will not show up at all in windows while the esata drives are connected and or the other seagate barracuda 1TB drive. The esatas are 1TB fantom drives.

    I have no raids the disk simply will not show up. I tried changing it to drive Y so that wouldn't be an issue but still will not mount at all in the presence of the others.

    The mac drive, WD, is not an issue.

    I have had all the components working for sometime other than this hard drive and simply forgot about it. Cause lets face it setting up a dual with all the pieces working just the way you want takes some time and I was happy without it for a while but now it just irks me.

    I have already tried different cables both power and sata.
    I have waded around in computer management but no progress.

    I mean on the cool side it is like an invisible secret drive Just a real pain to access.

    Specs:

    DIY Dual Boot
    Windows 7 on 1.5GB Barracuda partitioned 420GB
    Leopard 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black partitioned 300GB entire disk is mac format
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
    Intel i7 920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz
    Motherboard: Gigabyte EX58-UD5
    RAM: 12GB G.SKILL DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple channel
    Graphix Card: Sapphire Radeon HD4870 1GB 256 GDDR5
    PC Audio: onboard Gigabyte
    MAC Audio: SYBA SD-CM-UAUD71 USB Sound Adapter
    Acer 22" Widescreen AL2223W Resolution 1680x1050
    Hard Drives:
    x1 Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB SATA HFSJ
    x2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB SATA NTFS
    x1 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB 7200 RPM 32MB SATA NTFS
    x2 External Fantom G-Force 1 TB 7200 RPM 16MB eSATA x1 NTFS x1 Fat 32
    PSU: Rosewill BRONZE Series RBR1000-M 1000W Continuous@40°C, 80Pl
    Case: COOLER MASTER HAF 932 ATX Full Tower
    CPU Fan: COOLER MASTER V8 RR-UV8-XBU1-GP 120mm Rifle
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  2. Posts : 1,653
    Windows 10 Pro. EFI boot partition, full EFI boot
       #2

    It shows up in manage -> disk management and you cannot assign it a drive letter or it doesn't show up in your system at all? (device manager, etc.) Is it a clone of another drive? Does its serial number in in 007?

    Are all of these drives on the same controller? What SATA controller (windows, Intel RST, ...)? Are the eSATA on the same controller and you are using AHCI for hot-swap?

    Need more information.

    Gene
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  3. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Only shows up in disk management when other drives are not connected.
    It does always show up when you right click a drive, then properties, then hardware.
    I think that my OS HDD and eSATA HDDs are on a gigabyte controller but not sure.

    Not sure how to check controller and my computer will not boot when I switch to AHCI on the PC side.

    Thank you for any help you can provide.
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  4. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
       #4

    Is your Sata controller set to IDE in BIOS?
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  5. Posts : 1,653
    Windows 10 Pro. EFI boot partition, full EFI boot
       #5

    Smileypain said:
    Only shows up in disk management when other drives are not connected.
    It does always show up when you right click a drive, then properties, then hardware.
    I think that my OS HDD and eSATA HDDs are on a gigabyte controller but not sure.

    Not sure how to check controller and my computer will not boot when I switch to AHCI on the PC side.

    Thank you for any help you can provide.

    my computer-> manage -> device manager

    look under ide ata/atapi controllers and what do you see?
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  6. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    They are all on IDE controllers and after a little foolin around I made some progess.
    The only hard drive effecting 1TB Seagate Labeled Y: Abyss is a 1TB eSATA Fantom Drive Labeled as Q: WORK HORSE.
    WORK HORSE is Formatted Fat32 so at work I can take it between Mac and PC.
    This is are how I see my drives in CMOS when they are all connected and powered up.
    I will just label hard drive name and description

    IDE CHANNEL 0 MASTER H: DATA SEAGATE 1TB
    IDE CHANNEL 0 SLAVE C:&E: WINDOWS OS DRIVE SEAGATE 1.5TB
    IDE CHANNEL 1 MASTER NONE
    IDE CHANNEL 1 SLAVE NONE
    IDE CHANNEL 2 MASTER Y: ABYSS SEAGATE 1TB DOESN'T SHOW UP WITH Q: WORK HORSE
    IDE CHANNEL 3 MASTER NONE
    IDE CHANNEL 4 MASTER Q: WORK HORSE 1TB eSATA FANTOM DRIVE FAT32
    IDE CHANNEL 4 SLAVE G: FATMAN 1TB eSATA FANTOM DRIVE NTSC
    IDE CHANNEL 5 MASTER NONE
    IDE CHANNEL 5 SLAVE NONE

    NOTE:
    J:&K: MAC OS 1TB WD CAVIER BLACK HFSJ did not show up in CMOS but is always found in windows.

    When Q: WORK HORSE is turned off the MAC OS drive takes its place.
    IDE CHANNEL 4 MASTER J:&K: MAC OS 1TB WD CAVIER BLACK HFSJ

    I hope that made a shred of sense to you guys cause I am stumped.
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  7. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
       #7

    Gigabyte EX58-UD5
    Take a look at page 59 of your manual.
    You can download from here:
    http://www.gigabyte.lv/products/page...ownload/manual

    What is your Sata controller set to?

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