Not always. Some BIOS software will auto detect for a primary boot partition, and change your boot order without any help from you at all. Thus, it could indeed get confused with two seperate primary boot partitions. I've actually seen this happen on many occasions.
If the 1.5 is new, and had problems right out of the gate, I would just RMA it, and be done with it. I'm sorry, but I did not realize it was a brand new drive, or I would have suggested this WAY earlier.
Taking a look at this, I'm seeing that he's got two drives the 320 and the 1.5 that don't play at all well together... Ok, if I'm following this properly... the 1.5 worked as a second drive on the other machine, but not on this machine... the other big drive works with the 1.5... Y'know what I'm wondering now... if there isn't a problem with the 320... It seems everyone plays well together except that one.
Arrrg... this is giving me a headache....
Honestly, I can't confirm those findings, as the OP is quite confusing in explaining what he's done so far. Maybe it's just me, I don't know.
At any rate, I suggest a return on the new drive. If you buy brand new hardware and it doesn't work perfect right from the get go, I won't even fool around trying to "fix" it. That could potentially just turn into another headache down the road, and maybe even AFTER the warranty is up.
Returning an item you just bought is always possible. Why would you be checking it for bad sectors if you didn't already suspect a failure? Once again, I fail to see the logic here.
By the way, just "check" for bad sectors on the 1.5, and DO NOT repair them. That could mess up your return. Let the tech's at the place your returning it to see it has bad sectors, so they don't try to send you the same drive back. And yes, a lot of places actually do just that.
Guys, I'm having a similar issue. Only my setup is a 1TB SATA and a 320gb IDE, both Seagate. On occasion the IDE drive will "Vanish" from the post test. It will not show on the boot menu. This being weird enough, I thought perhaps the drive was old and was just on it's last leg. SO I re-installed Windows 7 on the SATA for main boot. The SATA never disappears from the post BUT will dump the MBR and require repairs. Oddly enough, I can PREDICT this happening. I am a gamer and my latency will begin creeping up in game, slowly at first then jump into the 1000's. When I reboot to get rid of the latency, there will be no IDE drive and it will boot straight to the SATA. If the Sata is plugged in solo, the MBR will be missing and have to be repaired. The IDE drive will magically reappear if I leave it UNPLUGGED from the power supply for a while, I've not determined the "exact" length of time as I was surprised to see it function after not even showing in the drive register. Nonetheless, unplug the IDE drive's power cable and leave it unplugged for 6+ hours like I did and see if it shows back up when you re-plug it in. I have been reading some things about ASUS MB's and I'm beginning to question this MB's bios.
MB: M2A-VM HDMI, AMD 3800+ Dual Core 64 bit, 3GB ram, internal ATI video.
Hope this helps.
Addendum: I had Windows 7 RC on this same system for 10 months with NO ISSUE. Installed the 1TB without issue and both drives played nicely together. These issues began when I was forced to change to the released version of Windows Home Premium.
Last edited by Sattracer; 03 Apr 2010 at 18:14. Reason: additional information
That is why they have to give us warrantees, y'know....
Yep... it's refund time.
This has indeed become very confusing... so much so that I think I'll let this one go 'cause I don't think I'll ever get my head around it now.
For the OP... when problems like this come up, a rigid methodical approach is the only way to solve them... When you add new hardware to a working system and it screws up, 90% of the time it's going to be the new hardware (or it's drivers) fault but the only way to confirm that is to put the new hardware in a different working machine and see what happens. i.e. The best test would have been to wipe the new 1.5 clean, delete all partitions, put it in with your old drive... no go... take it to another machine and put it in with that old drive... ok that works... now put your old drive in a working machine as a second drive... and so on. It's crucial that you track and catalog all this stuff if you are to get a successful repair... even more so if you are asking for help.
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