Second slave hard drive doesn

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by mcduke, Oct 9, 2012.

  1. mcduke

    mcduke Corporal

    I have my master hard drive in sata 0 and a slave at sata 5. They both show up in bios, but in windows only the sata 0 hard drive shows. WhY?
     
    mcduke, Oct 9, 2012
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  2. voodoo3rd

    voodoo3rd Corporal

    If it's unformatted or not in NTFS or FAT file system windows won't see it.
     
    voodoo3rd, Oct 10, 2012
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  3. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    There is no master and slave in the sata arrangement,you just have numbered sata ports.

    Post your operating system.

    Go to control panel,admin tools,computer management,disk manager,does the drive show up? If so right click the raw partition and format it.
     
    Rikky, Oct 10, 2012
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  4. satrow

    satrow Major Geek Extraordinaire

    If it shows up in Disk Management, go to Explorer > Tools > Folder options > View tab and uncheck 'Hide empty drives ... '.
     
    satrow, Oct 10, 2012
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  5. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    Satrow's method is much preferred if the drive isn't new and you'd like to keep the contents:-D

    @ss-UME
     
    Rikky, Oct 10, 2012
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