Not Recognizing Slave Drive
Mar 10, 2010
I recently had a serious crash on my Shuttle61 series desktop which was running WXP Pro. I bought this machine with the OS pre-installed and the store is now out of business. Fortunately, my son just bought W7 for his machine and he gave me his Vista Home Premium Upgrade package and I decided to try it. Installed just fine after installing my trusty old W2K OS as a base, upgraded and its not as bad as I thought! So far only one obvious glitch... the OS is not recognizing my 320Gig "slave" drive which is where a lot of my pictures and data are stored.
I went into the BIOS and the Slave is showing up properly. I also popped the cover off and made sure all connections were snug, but this drive has been working just fine until the Vista install. Connecting external USB drive shows up just fine as well. So I am baffled about why the BIOS is seeing the drive, but the OS is not.
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Jun 30, 2008
I have a HD form old computer and want to add install it in the new computer with vista. BIOS recognizes the slave drive but vista keeps checking as a continuously before starting up. I tried to add slave drive after bootup. The vista again recognizes the drive and installed the drivers for it. After that it didn't let me access the harddrive.
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Nov 10, 2009
I have a slave drive that was getting really filled (it was showing red). Now, it has disappeared from the "My Computer" section and I cannot find it. I don't know how to access it to take some things off. I have all of my photos and graphics on there and I'm scared of losing them.
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Jul 4, 2008
I am new-new-new to Vista. Don't know enough (about bios or any of that) to research my issue. Here's my deal...if I leave the computer on for a few days or what not my computer looses my slave drive. This drive is what I keep my pics and music on. When I reboot the drive re-appears. Any ideas as to why? This has just started out of the blue. I only noticed it because I was going to email a pic from the slave and the slave was not there.
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Mar 29, 2008
The motherboard on my old computer died. Hard drive was still OK, though. Have put it in an external HD enclosure and hooked it up to the new Gateway - running Vista. I don't have the disks for Office XP, it came pre-installed and I purchased it, but no longer have the product key. I do NOT want to upgrade to Office 2007, I want to use the Office XP I paid for, and was happy using. I can't transfer programs using WET or WETC - at least, I haven't been able to figure out how to do it, with both drives connected to the same computer. How can I configure Vista to run my the copy of Office XP currently installed on my old HD?
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Aug 19, 2009
I have bought a new system with Vista Home Premium and I am trying to install an IDE hard drive as a slave. These are from my old system and I just want them installed so I can copy across stuff. I have done this in XP with no problem but I cannot seem to get this system to see them. If they do not show up in Bios does this mean Vista wont see them? I have tried varies jumper settings but my Bios just wont see either of my drives. My new system has a Sata HD installed so I am just connecting my slave IDE HD to the empty IDE connector on the Mobo.
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Sep 13, 2009
I'm sorry I never wanted Vista and IE 7.0 or 8.0 from the numerous bad reviews and complaints... I understand the solution would've been to have it built by a local PC store? If I had the guts and the knowledge, I'd return it (now on the way) and order a custom made... and probably lose the bargain of the year??? :o)
ALSO, my present HD is still very good at 4 years of age, so is it possible to use it as a "slave" backup? Yet, in case of a computer calamity, wouldn't the data get lost also in the slave HD? So...is it possible to use it as an external backup? If so, what does it take?
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Aug 19, 2009
I have bought a new system with Vista Home Premium and I am trying to install an IDE hard drive as a slave. These are from my old system and I just want them installed so I can copy across stuff.
I have done this in XP with no problem but I cannot seem to get this system to see them.
If they do not show up in Bios does this mean Vista wont see them? I have tried varies jumper settings but my Bios just wont see either of my drives.
My new system has a Sata HD installed so I am just connecting my slave IDE HD to the empty IDE connector on the Mobo.
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Jan 9, 2009
First of all, I built my new PC a couple of days back installed vista ultimate 64 which is all good. The new HD is attached to the mother board via a SATA connection. I removed my old XP drive from the old PC and installed it to the new system also however as its quite old I have had to use the IDE connection on the mother board and set the jumpers to slave. I want to be able to access all my old music, photos etc.
Now Vista picks up the old XP drive through “computer” but when I try to access it, it sates I need to reformat the drive which of course I totally want to avoid!
I made sure the (ribbon type) IDE cable is using the correct (grey) slave connection and also made sure the jumper is set to slave. Apparently there is no need to set anything else to master as I’m using SATA connections. The old drive was also previously operational prior to the new build so I know there are no issues there.
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I have the Intel controller configured as ACHI in the BIOS and the JMicron as IDE which as far as I am aware is correct.
Kind Regards,
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