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Old October 8th, 2006, 08:11 PM
swpfilms swpfilms is offline
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Replaced boot drive but second drive not found
I have been running 2 SATA HDDs with XP Pro but earlier today my boot drive craped out on me so I replaced it with my IDE harddrive from my media center containing XPMC 2005. During the bootup process it list my second HDD (the working SATA drive) but when I open My Computer the drive is not listed and when I go into Computer Management its not on the drive list to assign it a drive letter. Any suggestions?
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Old October 8th, 2006, 10:30 PM
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While you are in Windows (media center) try installing the sata drivers so windows can see it.
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Old October 8th, 2006, 11:44 PM
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Make sure the cable didn't come loose (happens often with SATA)
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Old October 9th, 2006, 02:21 AM
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I got it figured out, it was the BIOS setting for the SATA had to switch it to combined since I was using both IDE and SATA. Thanks for the help though.
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