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Slave HD not recognized

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jblue42

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Im trying to add another harddrive to my machine, but WindowsXP will not recognize it when I have it as a slave, although my BIOS does recognize it. Windows doesn't see it in Device Manager, or Disk Management.

Master: maxtor 200GB ata133
Slave: seagate 80GB ata133
IC7-G with latest bios
Hard-drives are both set to cable select, on a new ata133 IDE cable. Abit labled the cable master/slave so I know i have the drives plugged in correctly

I wiped and re-zeroed the seagate with autoclave, but still nothing. I then hooked it up in my external HD enclosure, and windows saw it right away, and I formatted it (ntfs) from disk management while it was in the external, but when I put it back internal, as slave, windows can't see it.

I don't know what else to do, ive tried setting manually "LBA mode" for the seagate, and I've done auto-detects for both drives in bios. Am I doing something wrong, or not doing something i should? Please assist, thank you



*EDIT*
Also, just as a side note, for anyone looking at Maxtor drives, I would say, don't get it. Mine is much louder than both my WD120 caviar and the 80gb seagate, and the maxtor runs much much hotter, its extreamly hot to the touch shortly after turning on.
 
have you tried puting it on a different ide channel than your Maxtor, and tried a different cable, i have seen new cables do some funky things, like the round cable that came with my new MB, would cause it to hang on the post screen, replaced the cable and it worked
 
I can't put it on a different channel, only 2 channels, and I have 4 devices, I've been told to not put optical drives and HD's on the same channel. I will try a different cable right now though.
 
Ok it works now, I changed the cable, and i manually set the jumpers to master/slave, and on a reboot windows popped up with the Add new hardware wizard.

I do have one question though, the new cable i switched to seems to have many more wires than the cable that came with my mobo. What's the difference here? Would abit give me a crappy IDE cable?

Thanks too, Im not so frustrated anymore.
 
it could have been a cheap cable, definetly possible, msi gave me a cheap one
 
I am just willing to bet it was the fact you had them as Cable select. I have never done that. Would have just set them to Master/Slave right off the bat.

Meh...As long as everything worked out in the end.
 
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