BIOS sees my Hard Disk || WinXP doesn't

[fontas]

I have a SATA hard disk drive in two partitions!
.. and one CD-RW and one DVD-ROM in Primary IDE...

I found an ATA hard disk and I pluged it in the secondary IDE as an Single/Master..

BIOS DoEs see it normally... However WinXP, Device Manager, my Computer.. does not..

Does anybody knows what am I doing wrong?
Is it the order of the IDE devices? (Hard Disk to Primary IDE and CD/DVD to Secondary??)
Any idea? Thx!

 

[fontas]

I've just noticed that BIOS does not recognizes my HD!!

Primary IDE Master : CD-RW
Primary IDE Slave : DVD-Rom
Secondary IDE Master : Seagate 80GB (<--My S-ATA HD with the OS!!)
Secondary IDE Slave : Not Detected

My ATA Seagate 40GB pluged into secondary IDE is nowhere!! (jumper set to Single/Master)
My S-ATA Seagate 80GB looks like it is connected to an IDE port...
And I'm f***ing confused!!!!!!!!!

 

[Samstoned]

check bios or your MB manual see if it allows for sata boot
maybe you got a converter on there (I don't have experiance with sata drives)
I will say I have never seen the main HDD on sec cable
don't know if your game or not ,(I like to blow up systems)
try swapping out the 2 cables at the MB .
before you do go to bios or read the manual on bootup setup
if you are installing a used drive with a OS on it be aware; system
(W2K and XP)may want to fix look up tables don't let it do this

 

[patio]

First off don't confuse partitions with physical devices...
You can have a HD with 4,6, or any # of partitions it is still only 1 physical device.
On each IDE channel you can have 2 physical devices; one master and one slave.
If i read you right you have the 2nd HD set to master on IDE2
Re-set it to slave and re-boot and your OS should pick it up...

Actually most systems are set up with:
IDE1
1st physical device = master or HD you boot from
2nd physical device = slave another HD

IDE2
1st physical device = master CD/DVD Burner
2nd physical device = slave 3rd HD or CDRom.

Hope this helps...

patio.

 

[fontas]

Thanx men! I solved my problem!
Actually BIOS understands my SATA as it is connected on an IDE port!
It was set as the ""Secondary IDE""!
I had to set it to ""Third IDE"", although I don'y have a physical one..
So the IDE HD took his place as the MASTER of the WIND... ahem... of the SECONDARY IDE PORT! Hell Yeah! :hotbounce :hotbounce