Hard Drive not identified by XP but is by BIOS!

Posted: 01-01-2004, 02:06 PM

PompeyRodney

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Hi All
Can anyone please help me with a very annoying problem I am having. My
system is as follows, Win XP Pro SP1 with all patches installed. Gigabyte
GA7 DXR+ mobo with 512 MB ram, G Force 3 Ti 200 Graphics. I have 5 hard
drives connected, 1 to IDE 1 and the other four to IDE 3 and 4. The system
drive is on IDE 1 and the other four are identified in the BIOS as Devices
0, 1, 2, and 3. All the drives are set up as dynamic volumes but device 3 is
not recognised by XP. The drive works fine and is ok in other systems I run
but why not this one. One of the other drives is partitioned into two
logical drives which results in me seeing 6 drive letters in explorer
instead of the 7 I would see if device 3 was being recognised. Thanks a lot
in advance of any help.

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Brian Gregory [UK]

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Re: Hard Drive not identified by XP but is by BIOS!

Posted: 01-01-2004, 02:26 PM

"PompeyRodney" <jdpitt@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All
> Can anyone please help me with a very annoying problem I am having. My
> system is as follows, Win XP Pro SP1 with all patches installed.

Gigabyte

> GA7 DXR+ mobo with 512 MB ram, G Force 3 Ti 200 Graphics. I have 5

hard

> drives connected, 1 to IDE 1 and the other four to IDE 3 and 4. The

system

> drive is on IDE 1 and the other four are identified in the BIOS as

Devices

> 0, 1, 2, and 3. All the drives are set up as dynamic volumes but

device 3 is

> not recognised by XP. The drive works fine and is ok in other systems

I run

> but why not this one. One of the other drives is partitioned into two
> logical drives which results in me seeing 6 drive letters in explorer
> instead of the 7 I would see if device 3 was being recognised. Thanks

a lot

> in advance of any help.

Check the entries in Device manager for the IDE interfaces.
In particular check all channels are enabled.

Then try "Add Hardware" in Control Panel.

Can't think of anything else at the moment.

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Brian Gregory (In the UK).
bg@catlover.com

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Re: Hard Drive not identified by XP but is by BIOS!

Posted: 01-01-2004, 02:53 PM

Try this, I had a very similar problem.

Go to the
"Device Manager"
and then to the
"IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers".
Select the IDE controller that the OS doesn't see the drive on and go to the
"Advanced Settings"
tab. Make sure the device wither is 0 (master) or 1 (slave) is set to "Auto"
and not "None". If it is already at "Auto" then it should be grayed out and
not changeable.

I had this problem when I added a new IDE device which wasn't there during
the OS installation. After beating my head for several days I found this
while helping a friend with a similar problem but a DVD-R drive rather then
a hard drive, Anyway, this method fixed both of our problems and I hope it
does yours as well.

(^_^) Ross

PompeyRodney

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Re: Hard Drive not identified by XP but is by BIOS!

Posted: 01-05-2004, 07:24 PM

Hi Ross
Tried what you suggested with no joy, both IDE controllers are set to Auto
Detect and are dimmed as a result. How many IDE controllers should I be
seeing in Device Manager as I have the problem disk attached to IDE 4. I am
only seeing the Primary, Secondary and another called "VIA bus mater IDE
controller". My additional 4 hard drives are shown as three "Promise 1+0
Stripe/Raid 0 Scsi Disk Device", I take it I should be seeing all four
drives listed here ?
Thanks
Julian

"block_spam" <block_spam@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Try this, I had a very similar problem.
>
> Go to the
> "Device Manager"
> and then to the
> "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers".
> Select the IDE controller that the OS doesn't see the drive on and go to

the

> "Advanced Settings"
> tab. Make sure the device wither is 0 (master) or 1 (slave) is set to

"Auto"

> and not "None". If it is already at "Auto" then it should be grayed out

and

> not changeable.
>
> I had this problem when I added a new IDE device which wasn't there during
> the OS installation. After beating my head for several days I found this
> while helping a friend with a similar problem but a DVD-R drive rather

then

> a hard drive, Anyway, this method fixed both of our problems and I hope it
> does yours as well.
>
> (^_^) Ross
>
>

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