SATA Drive & 2 IDE drives

Discussion in 'Storage Devices' started by scorps65, May 7, 2008.

  1. cube_

    cube_ Mega Geek

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    Heres my situation:

    I have an 300GB Seagate SATA Drive with Windows Vista and is also my boot.
    Next, i have two 80GB Wester Digital IDE (PATA) that are both using THE SAME IDE CABLE... and the IDE cable is connected to the second IDE connection on my motherboard.
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    Out of the two IDE Hard drives... one is MASTER, and the second is SLAVE.
    BIOS detects both of them and also detects my SATA drive.

    The problem lies here:
    When i boot up Windows, it only detects my SATA Drive (drive C:), and my master IDE Drive (drive D:)
    Why isn't it detecting my 3rd Slave IDE drive (should be drive E: or F:) ?

    THANKS
     
    cube_, May 7, 2008
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  2. cube_

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    Somebody must know how to connect 1 SATA drive and 2 IDE drives no? :eek:
     
    cube_, May 10, 2008
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  3. cube_

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    nvm... all i had to do was to open Disk Managment and format the unallocated space...
    Why it was unallocated in the first place i dont know...
     
    cube_, May 10, 2008
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