Missing Second Hard Drive

[Tops]

Hi,

My PC has two separate hard drives 1 SATA drive (from which the PC
boots, has the OS Win XP Home and everything else) and 1 ATA drive
which I use to
store files, music, and back up the former.

The ATA drive is not jumpered and therefore is set as a 'slave' could
this be the reason that when I 'hibernate' my PC this drive disappears
when she returns to life, both in Device Manager and Windows
Explorer .. completely missing ... takes a full reboot to bring it
back ... should I jumper the ATA drive to be a master??

Mick

 

[peter]

yes
peter

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hi,

My PC has two separate hard drives 1 SATA drive (from which the PC
boots, has the OS Win XP Home and everything else) and 1 ATA drive
which I use to
store files, music, and back up the former.

The ATA drive is not jumpered and therefore is set as a 'slave' could
this be the reason that when I 'hibernate' my PC this drive disappears
when she returns to life, both in Device Manager and Windows
Explorer .. completely missing ... takes a full reboot to bring it
back ... should I jumper the ATA drive to be a master??

Mick

Depends on other things.

You need to check the documentation for the drive, but not using a jumper
can just really confuse the system. Depending on what the system supports
and what else is on the IDE channel (such as CD/DVD drive) jumper the drive
appropriately.

You must definitely pay attention to other devices on the IDE channel.

HTH
-pk

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hi,

My PC has two separate hard drives 1 SATA drive (from which the PC
boots, has the OS Win XP Home and everything else) and 1 ATA drive
which I use to
store files, music, and back up the former.

The ATA drive is not jumpered and therefore is set as a 'slave'

What the absence of a jumper means depends on the particular drive. It
may or may not be treated as a slave; you would have to consult its
documentation to find out.

could
this be the reason that when I 'hibernate' my PC this drive disappears
when she returns to life, both in Device Manager and Windows
Explorer .. completely missing ... takes a full reboot to bring it
back ... should I jumper the ATA drive to be a master??

That depends. An IDE channel can support either one or two drives. Is
there another drive on this IDE cable? If so, how is it jumpered? If
you have two drives on the cable, one needs to be jumpered as master
and the other slave. But if there's just a single drive, it needs to
be jumpered as master (unless there's an "only drive" setting, which
some drives have).

By the way, if I were you, I would rethink your backup strategy. I
don't recommend backup to a second non-removable hard drive because it
leaves you susceptible to simultaneous loss of the original and backup
to many of the most common dangers: severe power glitches, nearby
lightning strikes, virus attacks, even theft of the computer.

In my view, secure backup needs to be on removable media, and not kept
in the computer. For really secure backup (needed, for example, if the
life of your business depends on your data) you should have multiple
generations of backup, and at least one of those generations should be
stored off-site.


My computer isn't used for business, but my personal backup scheme
uses two identical removable hard drives,I alternate between the two,
and use Acronis True Image to make a complete copy of the primary
drive.