Secondary hard drive issue

[NotQuiteParity]

Hi, first post here but long time lurker. I've recently installed a secondary internal hard drive on my desktop, whilst it works ok Windows seems to think it's external and constantly has the "remove external media" flashing on the taskbar. I'm not sure how to correct this as it's installed exactly the same as my primary hard drive, the only difference is that it's SATA 1 rather than 3.

 

Out of curiosity I decided to see what would happen if I clicked on it and the D drive vanished. I wasn't sure if there was a Windows equivelant of the Linux mount command that I could use so I just reset and the D drive was back, and so was the message telling me about removing external media. Is there a way I can get Windows to realise that this isn't an external drive?

[Jelly Bean]

Hello,could you enter BIOS and let me know what is listed there....

 

Example:

 

Your main hard drive will show as Primary Master.....What does the salve drive show up as?

 

1. Restart your computer. While the computer restarts, run the system setup program (sometimes called BIOS or CMOS setup). This is usually done by pressing a special key, such as DELETE, ESC, or F1 during the startup process.
   
2. Within the system setup program, instruct the system to auto detect your new drive.
   
3. Save the settings and exit the setup program. When your computer restarts, it should recognize your new drive. Note: Serial ATA is a new interface type. Some older systems may see the drive and classify it as a SCSI device if you are using a Serial ATA host adapter. This is normal even though this is not a SCSI disc drive. Many systems’ BIOS will not identify a Serial ATA drive connected to a PCI SATA host adapter. This is because a PCI SATA Host Adapter has its own BIOS which is used to identify hard drives connected to it which is separate from the BIOS of the computer. To determine whether or not the SATA Host Adapter is detecting the Serial ATA hard drive, please consult the documentation provided by the Serial ATA Host Adapter’s manufacturer. This does not affect drive performance or capacity.
   

[NotQuiteParity]

Within the BIOS the secondary hard drive is set to auto detection and is shown as a slave drive. One thing I have noticed though is that in the BIOS it displays all of the hard drives specifications as it does the primary, but when viewing it through the device manager in Windows all I get is "no description available." Windows just shows the capacity and misses out everything else, it also labels the drive as SCSI.

 

The hard drive model is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160GB which has an online PDF at http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/manuals/sata/100390001c.pdf but it mostly seems to be about driver specifications and physical installation.

[Jelly Bean]

Have you assigned a drive letter and formatted this hard drive via computer management?

[NotQuiteParity]

Yes I've done both of those things. Originally the drive was partitioned so after I installed it I removed it and reformatted the drive in order to get rid of some pesky Windows folders that didn't want to politely remove themselve when prompted. The new drive was originally assigned both D: and E: but after the partition was removed became the D: drive.

[KenB]

Hi,

 

became the D: drive.

You don't have a DVD CDROM drive? This is normally D:\

 

In diskmanagement - is the drive Active and Healthy ?

[NotQuiteParity]

The DVD RW drive is displayed as the F: drive and, like the D: drive, is working fine. The D: drive itself works and can be accessed, I originally installed it for backup purposes and have since yesterday backed up various folders to it. The backups themselves can also be accessed just like the originals on the C: drive, the only difference is that for some reason Windows still thinks the D: drive is an external storage device.

[KenB]

Start ....type in the search box ......diskmgmt.msc .....ENTER

 

What is listed against D:\

 

It sounds, as J-B has suggested, like a BIOS setting.