SATA Hard Drive

[metalhead]

Hi all, long time no visit ... as things have been running smoothly.....Until now. My present set up has 2 IDE hard drives with windows 7 on each (just in case I get problems with one installation) I have just bought a 500GB SATA drive and installed this alongside the previous drives.so far so good...the Bios recognises this as a valid Drive but when I boot up and go to my computer this isn't showing up? Not sure where I am going wrong..tried to put Windows 7 on this (Just to see if this recognises the Drive) but It cant install as it needs formatting first....any Ideas would be more than appreciated....thanks in advance Pete

[Jelly Bean]

Hello Pete,does the hard drive does it show in disk management?

[metalhead]

No , only on Black pre-boot screen

[metalhead]

Hi again. I'm begining to think that the new SATA drive is not compatable with my 2 IDE drives......Is this Possible?

I have sucsessfully installed Windows 7 on the SATA but ......My computer dosn't show or recognise the old IDE drives when I run this. When I change the BIOS setup to boot from my previous set-up This wont show the SATA drive? All 3 drives are showing in the Bios but I cant seem to get then to recognise each other in Windows....Gonna sell the SATA soon and get a Bigger IDE Drive if I cant get to the bottom of this problem.....Cheers from a seriously P****d Off Pete

[Jelly Bean]

Have you changed the pin order on the IDE drives?

 

Little plastic jumpers?

[metalhead]

I didnt touch any of the IDE's, which Drives need to be altered? Master or Slave or both...thanx Pete

[Jelly Bean]

If your going to boot from the SATA then I would sugested making IDE slaves...