Win 7 - Can't see slave drive

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  1. Meltdown
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    Win 7 - Can't see slave drive


    Hi all,

    I just bought a new hard drive + Win 7, installed Win 7, and have now attached another drive that would not boot properly (has winxp OS on it)

    Windows 7 doesn't seem to be able to 'see' the slave drive, is there anything else I need to do to let Win 7 see the slave drive?

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    Melt
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  3. DocBrown
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    Welcome Meltdown


    What kind of HD's IDE, SATA, etc.

    Does it show up it the Bios boot up screen ?

    Other hardware specs would help.
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  4. Casca
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    Assumption jump-

    an oft overlooked setting...

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  6. Meltdown
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    Hi, these are two SATA drives, the one with the Win 7 OS is 1TB, the slave 250G, I also have a CD drive and a DVD/CD burner drive - 2 Gigs RAM.

    In the BIOS I see Drive 0 to Drive 3 , SATA 0 to SATA 3. I don't see any mention of my western digital slave drive.

    Thanks for the welcome.

    Regards
    Melt
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  7. DocBrown
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    Can you see all the drives in Disk Management ?
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  8. Meltdown
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    Hi, this is what I see.
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  10. Casca
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    I got lost here

    "In the BIOS I see Drive 0 to Drive 3" - 4 drives

    "SATA 1 to SATA 3" - 3 drives

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  11. DocBrown
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    Check your WD 250gb slave for Data & Power cable connections. Just recently one member actually had a bad SATA data cable

    Also try a different SATA port on MB.
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  12. DocBrown
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    @ Casca

    You saw my D: drive . 12 feet from your Huge Monitor
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  13. Meltdown
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    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
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