Slave SATA not being detected

[Chamelious]

I have a 80gb sata as my master drive in my XP system(on sata0), just bought a maxtor 160gb and put in sata1, but windows will not detect this drive in any way shape or form other than to pause on the start screen for longer than usual. Any help??

 

[BaudKarma]

You might try crossing the connections to see if anything changes.

I try not to let my ignorance prevent me from offering a strong opinion.

 

[LloydSev]

SATA1 is not slave to SATA0.. it's a different controller.

You need to set the device to master.

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CCNA

 

[Chamelious]

Hmm, how do i do that? Also, when i tried crossing them over, the old 80gb was recognised on SATA 1, but still nothing at all of the new one.

 

[mainegeek]

Chamelious,
Go to Conytol Panel,Administrative Tools,Computer Management,Disk Management and see what is showing there.

The new drive needs to be partitioned and formated before it can be used by the OS.

 

[Chamelious]

The new HD doesn't show up there, or anywhere in windows, or anywhere is bios...

 

[Killerchronic]

sorry didn't wanna start a new thread for this...
i have the same problem as stated above except i had the drive running fine for about 2/3 weeks (its a new drive, a WD2000JD i have another one of these also and it works and has done for at least a year) and now when its plugged in it doesn't detect and it will take hours to load winXP and if its not plugged in then XP boots like it normally would...

also its only detected by the sata bios occasionally and only comes up as a WD2000JD instead of WD2000JD-00something i can't remember.

any help would be greatly appreciated