Hdd Not Detected Till Ide Drivers Are Uninstalled

Discussion in 'Software' started by smestarz, May 6, 2020.

  1. smestarz

    smestarz Private E-2

    I use Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit
    I have a 500 GB SSD as my primary, and have 4 TB as my secondary.
    I noticed that when I add 3rd HDD, it does not get detected (does detect in bios but not in computer management) the only way it can be detected is when I uninstall IDE drivers from Device manager, and restart in Safe mode, then restart in normal mode. Is this common?
    This never happened before, but it happens now.
    Any solution?
     
  2. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    When did it first happen?
     
  3. smestarz

    smestarz Private E-2

    Almost a month ago, when I connect my HDDS, they are seen in the BIOS, but does not show in Computer management or in explorer,
    The only way is to get to device manager, uninstall the IDE driver, restart in safe mode, then restart in normal mode.
    IF I tried to directly start in normal mode then IDE drivers are not installed.
     
  4. smestarz

    smestarz Private E-2

    So I have C drive which has my OS. There is D drive which is permanent Drive, there is E Drive which is SSD but not that reliable, and the S drive which i remove when full,
    All the 4 drives were present, then I shut down my windows, and removed the SATA and power connections on S drive, and restarted the computer, when I restarted it, My file explorer still showed me the S drive which was physically disconnected. very strange
     
  5. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    Were these additional drives that you connected and then had the problem?
    If not, why did you disconnect the drives in the first place?
     
  6. smestarz

    smestarz Private E-2

    No they dont have problems.
    C drive is an SSD and has the OS,
    D drive is the one that has all the Data for my work
    E drive is what holds the media (football games and movies etc that I watch) Its saved on this drive for a while.
    S drive is what I remove and replace, The media that is there on E drive, I move to S drive, once that is filled, I remove the drive & put another drive.

     
  7. satrow

    satrow Major Geek Extraordinaire

    Do you have any drives connected via IDE (ribbon cable)? If not, disabling the IDE channels from the BIOS should prevent the IDE drivers from triggering/installing at Boot.

    [Unless there's been some buggy SATA (?Intel RST?) drivers installed via Windows Update recently... wait, maybe it's a soft restart (kernel data + loaded drivers saved/reloaded from previous session for 'speed', AKA Fast Startup]
     
  8. smestarz

    smestarz Private E-2

    My system does not have an IDE drive at all.
    I shall disable IDE at Bios and see,

     

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