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HELP: Installed 2nd SATA hard drive.

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vat

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Hi, I just received my second 160GB SATA hard drive, it boots up to the windows bars but it doesn't get to window. I have to unplug the second hard drive in order to boot up to window. Do I need to set it as slave like IDE or anything like that? I am also having trouble taking out the SATA cable out of the hard drive. Thanks
 
vat said:
Hi, I just received my second 160GB SATA hard drive, it boots up to the windows bars but it doesn't get to window. I have to unplug the second hard drive in order to boot up to window. Do I need to set it as slave like IDE or anything like that? I am also having trouble taking out the SATA cable out of the hard drive. Thanks
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With sata drives there really isnt any slave and master like the IDE ones. At least not that Ive had to do in the past.

When you say second hd are you talking about the previous one you were using up until you got the new one?
 
discochan said:
With sata drives there really isnt any slave and master like the IDE ones. At least not that Ive had to do in the past.

When you say second hd are you talking about the previous one you were using up until you got the new one?
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No, I meant the new one. I plugged in the new one and the bios recognized it but it doesn't boot up to the actual window just to the part where you see the bars go forward then after that the screen went blank.
 
you might have your RAID settings setup in such a way that it's trying to create a new raid array with the two drives, and windows doesn't like that. Make sure they're set right.
 
I am pretty sure I set it up because I didn't use the RAID SATA. I use the SATA1 for the first hard drive and SATA2 for the second hard drive and I think I am doing this correctly, right?
 
vat said:
Hi, I just received my second 160GB SATA hard drive, it boots up to the windows bars but it doesn't get to window. I have to unplug the second hard drive in order to boot up to window. Do I need to set it as slave like IDE or anything like that? I am also having trouble taking out the SATA cable out of the hard drive. Thanks
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Each SATA drive uses its own channel, so there is no need to worry about setting master/slave/ID or anything like that as you would with PATA or SCSI. If you are able to boot properly into Windows just by disconnecting the new drive and you're running XP Pro/W2k or any of the NT kernels, what you may want to try doing is creating an NT boot disk and changing the boot.ini to be rdisk(1) rather than rdisk(0). If the machine boots fully using that NT boot disk, then just copy over the modified boot.ini and you should be good to go.

Alternately, there may be a corrupt OS load of some kind on the drive that you're loading, so you might also want to consider formatting the drive. I'd recommend disconnecting all your drives except for that one just to be safe, though.

And if those options don't get anywhere, you may just have a bad drive or cable -- let the drive's diagnostics do a full check on the drive and see if they bail out at any point.

Hope some of this helps,
XmagusX
 
Change the first drive to be installed in the first sata connector (SATA 0) on the board, and install the new drive into the second connector (SATA 1) on the board.
 
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