Hard drives not recognized in Windows.

[Guest]

Recently, I went through a lot of trouble installing a new SATA II drive on
my computer.

BIOS changed the boot order, and I lost all the informaiton on the original
boot drive (SATA).

I also have 2 optical drives on one cable (csel) and 2 IDE hard drives
(csel). This brings the total to 2 SATA, 2 Optical, and 2 IDE.

I have a gigabyte 915 mainboard with 3 IDE connectors and 4 SATA connectors.

My problem is that the 2 IDE drives are not recognized in Windows. They are
recognized in the BIOS.

If I remove the optical drives, the IDE drives are recognized.

Any suggestions other than installing the IDE drives in external cases?

TIA

Pat

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

What is the 'size' of the PSU? You are running quite a lot of hardware off
it and if the hard drive reappear when the optical ones are unpowered, it
would tend to indicate a power issue.

Do you mean that, although the BIOS shows all drives working, Device Manager
does not show them (the hard drives) at all... and right clicking on My
Computer and selecting Manage, then Disk Management, they don't even show up
on the right hand side of the screen?

If you're running TweakUI, are you sure the drives are not set to be hidden
(by letter)?

Just a few things to try before you go the PSU upgrade route.

 

[Brian A.]

Recently, I went through a lot of trouble installing a new SATA II drive on
my computer.

BIOS changed the boot order, and I lost all the informaiton on the original
boot drive (SATA).

I also have 2 optical drives on one cable (csel) and 2 IDE hard drives
(csel). This brings the total to 2 SATA, 2 Optical, and 2 IDE.

I have a gigabyte 915 mainboard with 3 IDE connectors and 4 SATA connectors.

My problem is that the 2 IDE drives are not recognized in Windows. They are
recognized in the BIOS.

If I remove the optical drives, the IDE drives are recognized.

Any suggestions other than installing the IDE drives in external cases?

TIA

Pat

What happens if you change the jumpers from CSEL to Master/Slave on the drives? If
no joy:
What happens if you swap an optical drive with a hard drive on the cables jumped as
Master/Slave? If still no joy:
Are you using 80wire/40pin cables? If yes:
Check the BIOS for a setting that configures the SATA drives as IDE drives and select
it if not already set. (should be default)

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[Andy]

What's the model number of the Gigabyte motherboard?
And which IDE connectors are the hard drives and optical drives
connected to?

 

[Guest]

Recently, I went through a lot of trouble installing a new SATA II drive on
my computer.

BIOS changed the boot order, and I lost all the informaiton on the original
boot drive (SATA).

I also have 2 optical drives on one cable (csel) and 2 IDE hard drives
(csel). This brings the total to 2 SATA, 2 Optical, and 2 IDE.

I have a gigabyte 915 mainboard with 3 IDE connectors and 4 SATA connectors.

My problem is that the 2 IDE drives are not recognized in Windows. They are
recognized in the BIOS.

If I remove the optical drives, the IDE drives are recognized.

Any suggestions other than installing the IDE drives in external cases?

TIA

Pat

Further information as requested:

To Cari;
Power Supply is 450 watt
BIOS shows all drives as functioning properly
Drives are not recognized in device manager, nor in Disk Management
Not using Tweak UI

To Brian;

No joy changing jumpers.
Hard drive switched out for optical on the optical cable is recognized. Not
recognized on the cable that the hard drives are on.
using 80 wire cables.
BIOS is set as indicated.

To Andy;

Mainboard model is the 81915GL/P rev 2
Optical drives are connected to the pink connection, and hard drives are
connected to one of the green connectors.

Further information: Both hard drives can be recognized if set up as RAID
drives, but no connection to the system can be accomplished. IE: the drives
show as raid drives in BIOS, and can transfer data between themselves, but no
data will transfer to the OS (WINXP Pro) or other drives. If RAID software
is installed, the software recognizes the drives, but they are still not
available to the system.

Thanks for the guidance so far.

Pat

 

[Andy]

This statement does not compute. The optical drives are connected to
IDE1, which is controlled by the Intel chipset. The two IDE hard
drives are connected to IDE2 or 3, which is controlled by the Via
VT6410 chip. These two IDE controllers are independent of each other,
and should not affect each other.

Further information as requested:

To Cari;
Power Supply is 450 watt
BIOS shows all drives as functioning properly
Drives are not recognized in device manager, nor in Disk Management
Not using Tweak UI

To Brian;

No joy changing jumpers.
Hard drive switched out for optical on the optical cable is recognized. Not
recognized on the cable that the hard drives are on.
using 80 wire cables.
BIOS is set as indicated.

To Andy;

Mainboard model is the 81915GL/P rev 2
Optical drives are connected to the pink connection, and hard drives are
connected to one of the green connectors.

Further information: Both hard drives can be recognized if set up as RAID
drives, but no connection to the system can be accomplished. IE: the drives
show as raid drives in BIOS, and can transfer data between themselves, but no
data will transfer to the OS (WINXP Pro) or other drives. If RAID software
is installed, the software recognizes the drives, but they are still not
available to the system.

If you install the VIA VT6410 IDE RAID driver, you should be able to
access the drives as independent non-raid drives via Windows XP Disk
Management to partition and format them.