Help with Installing two hard drives

[octapuss1]

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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[octapuss1]

Here is a picture of my motherboard.

Any suggestions would be great!

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[DocBrown]

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 ?

 

[octapuss1]

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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[octapuss1]

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.

 

[DocBrown]

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.

 

[octapuss1]

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.

 

[DocBrown]

Is the power cable seated properly ?


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I have several computers with SATA as primary & IDE secondary & vice versa, all work ok.

 

[DocBrown]

Does the HD show up in the Bios setup. How about in

:ar: computer Management :ar: Disk Management ?

 

[octapuss1]

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?

 

[octapuss1]

This is the harddrive. It shows that the slave option for the jumpers, is no pin at all. Just blank.

 

[DocBrown]

Yes, on several of my computers, the IDE's are usually listed first, & the Sata's last.

Could you have a bad flat ribbon cable, do you have any extra 40 pin cables to test with?

 

[octapuss1]

I dont have another ribbon. I can get one from work tomorrow.

A bit of a puzzle here.

 

[DocBrown]

Was this a brand new IDE HD or Used ? Any other computer that it could be tested in ?

 

[octapuss1]

In IDE Configuration it gives me the option to set Serial ATA, Parallel ATA or both as native mode.

What do you recommend here?

 

[octapuss1]

The HD worked in my other computer for a good year. I have changed to this computer as it could install WIN7 on it and old one could not.

When plugging it in to the old computer, and HD runs fine, and all the files are there.

 

[DocBrown]

In IDE Configuration it gives me the option to set Serial ATA, Parallel ATA or both as native mode.

What do you recommend here?

Try BOTH,,

and set the jumper on the IDE HD as slave, especially if it had an operating system on it before in the old computer.

Also on the MB how may SATA connections ? are they marked SATA0 (zero), SATA1, SATA2, etc ? Best to have the SATA HD with the Win7 OS on the lowest numbered SATA connection on MB.

 

[SledgeDG]

It shows that the slave option for the jumpers, is no pin at all. Just blank.

That is correct, I just checked the Seagate paper for that drive.
Just make sure that the Master drive is set to master and not Cable Select because then you have to bridge the 2nd pair of pins from the left.

-DG

 

[DocBrown]

Does your IDE ribbon cable have the little raised notches in it? I have some older cables that don't have them & it was possible to install them upside down & therfore an incorrect cable connection.

 

[octapuss1]

tried it too both. No luck so far. The setting for slave on this HD is no pin at all. I have read, and reread and it seems to be no pin. I just tried a different ribbon as well. No luck.