Win 7 - Can't see slave drive

Meltdown said:

Hi guys,

Still struggling with this, I've attached a few more pics.

DocBrown, how is it possible to 'check' these cables. Can you indicate from my pictures where the other SATA ports are please, I don't understand how to do that.

I think I only have one power connection(see pic) could that be the problem or is that normal?

Regards
Melt

Excellent pics

Looks like you are missing the data cable to the top HD ???

P3 & P5 connections are the HD power cable connections

Empty SATA connection on MB is for slave HD

Meltdown said:

Hi DocBrown, thanks for the reply

The blue data cable only has one connection point on it not two like the power cable, are you saying I need to go out and buy a data cable with two connection points? Why would the power cable have two connection points and the data one only have one?

SATA Data cables only have 1 connection on each end, I have not seen a dual SATA as yet. You need another single SATA Data cable. Red, Blue, Orange, yellow, whatever color you can get

Meltdown said:

Hi DocBrown,

Just to clarify, I'll buy a new SATA cable and connect it from the empty SATA connection on the MB to the data connection on the slave drive, is that correct?

Regards
Melt

YES !

or try the sata cable from your CD drive now to see if makes the slave recognized . you can do with out the CD for temporary testing, right ????