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jepeters · 05-07-2006, 11:27 AM

I took out 5 old hard drives from my video editing computer and replaced them with 2 400 GBdrives (the boot drive stayed in). Everything worked fine until I decided to add another drive (250GB). When I did, not only did that drive not show up, but I lost one of the other large drives.

I have tried every combination of cables, IDE controllers (there are 6 available), slave-master settings, etc., but now I am only able to see my boot drive and the 250GB drives.

There have been a few occasions when the 400 GB drives show up in My Computer, but they don't have the correct name (they are labeled 'Local Drive X') and when I double click on them, it gives me an error message. The drives DO show up when I go to the BIOS setup.

When I first put these 400 GB drives in, they worked fine and I was able to transfer the data from my old drives to them. Last night I put the drives on a different computer and the worked, so the drives themselves have not failed.

What am I doing wrong?

05-07-2006, 11:27 AM	#1
jepeters Member (10 bit) Join Date: May 1999 Location: Cando, ND USA Posts: 641	Drives not showing up I took out 5 old hard drives from my video editing computer and replaced them with 2 400 GBdrives (the boot drive stayed in). Everything worked fine until I decided to add another drive (250GB). When I did, not only did that drive not show up, but I lost one of the other large drives. I have tried every combination of cables, IDE controllers (there are 6 available), slave-master settings, etc., but now I am only able to see my boot drive and the 250GB drives. There have been a few occasions when the 400 GB drives show up in My Computer, but they don't have the correct name (they are labeled 'Local Drive X') and when I double click on them, it gives me an error message. The drives DO show up when I go to the BIOS setup. When I first put these 400 GB drives in, they worked fine and I was able to transfer the data from my old drives to them. Last night I put the drives on a different computer and the worked, so the drives themselves have not failed. What am I doing wrong? Last edited by jepeters; 05-07-2006 at 11:34 AM.