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Hard drive / system problems

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intrusionzero

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Well i have a 120 gb ide drive thats got the OS on it, 200 gb sata for files, and a 250 gig for files. Recently the 250 gig has not shown up in the bios or windows, so i just assumed it was fried or broke or something. I decided to take it out to try and return it, but when i did when i boot it boots SLOW. It stalls on the bios logo thing and the other bios pages for at least a couple minutes when it is usualy a few seconds. Boots into windows fine but the bios pages are so slow. Then when i plugged it back in, everything boots normally now but the hd still doesnt show up.
 
Sounds like the SATA controller had been configured to look for a drive on that channel and got confused and a little pissed when it wasn't there which was why your boot slowed down when you pulled it out. I've yet to work with SATA on a daily basis so I can only speculate that there is probably a setting in the SATA POST utility that allows you to configure devices per channel.

You said the drive was missing in Windows. Is it also missing in the BIOS? If it is there, I would check to see if the drive is visible in the Disk Manager (right click my computer - Manage - Disk Management). Sometimes Windows goes retarded (unusual, I know) and drops the drive letter from a disk. If you see a disk there (bottom right of the window) without a drive letter assigned, simply right click the drive, choose Change Drive letters and Paths, and assign it a letter. Windows will immediately see it again and you'll have access to your "files".
 
In the BIOS, is your controller set to AUTO detect your drive? If not, make it so. If the BIOS doesnt recognize the drive, try different cables. Make sure your PSU is powering it up. When you turn on the computer, do you hear the platters spinning inside the suspected hdd?
 
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