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cant figure this out.

Oct 20, 2006 7:13PM PDT

Hello everyone, if their is anyone out there that knows alot about hard drives- i like some help. I put together a computer with a Asus P5LDe-Deluxe board, everything is great. all connections cool -execpt for one problem-. bought a new 320G Western digital (SATA 2) drive and had an existing Western Digital 250G (SATA 1) drive. I formatted the new SATA 2 drive s boot drive- the old SATA 1 drive was already formated. though they both show up in BIOS i cant see the SATA 1(old drive) in -My Computer-. tried disk manager utility in windows and the W.D Data Lifeguard program- thought with SATA all drives where compatable. i mean SATA 1 and SATA 2, do i have to step down the SATA 2 drive to SATA 1 spec. with jumper? cant figure it out. should be no need for slave or master on SATA, right?

Hope someone can point me in right direction. thanks for the help.

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In short.
Oct 20, 2006 11:58PM PDT

Drives don't show in Windows until they are partitioned and even then I need to format them. Your post is void of the details for me to comment further.

Bob

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hope this helps you more to understand my problem.
Oct 21, 2006 6:23AM PDT

more infomation: i had one drive, my original drive(SATA 1), bought second drive(SATA 2)used on ASUS P5LD2 mother board. can a SATA 1 drive work with a SATA 2 drive?
both show up as bootable but the SATA 2 drive, is the primary. i want to be able to log into old drive to copy files or use seperately. i can format it as storage drive- but lose all info- i want to copy it's files first. was thinking maybe i can use windows disk to repair the partion (or fix windows) maybe that might allow it to show in -MY COMPUTER -in windows and allow me to use it. the SATA 1 drive shows up on everything- but MY COMPUTER in windows- and in disk management there is no drive letter.
in SATA config. on the board, i have the 320g(SATA2)as the primary drive- plug 1 (the RED one) and the original drive the SATA 1 drive is on the slave SATA plug 3 (the BLACK one)- this is designation on the Asus motherboard SATA plug 1+2 master and SATA plug 3+4 slave.
hope this will help you more. thanks.

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"can a SATA 1 drive work with a SATA 2 drive?"
Oct 21, 2006 6:45AM PDT

Absolutely. But your issues appear to be related to nothing in your first post.

No mention that the drive was used in some other system so I wouldn't note that this is often how people learn about backing up what they can't lose.

Look up ZERO ASSUMPTION RECOVERY and I wish you luck,

Bob

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lucky?
Oct 21, 2006 1:59PM PDT

thanks to the person who has taken effort to reply- thanks bob. it maybe hard to understand, but i did what i was trying to do- and learned more about drives.

sata controllers work independantly- i was pretty sure. there was no reason why my old formatted drive should not show up. but only my new drive that had been formatted showed. i just fooled with the windows cd and loaded some of the drivers from the cd. and low and behold this drive is now reconized in My Computer.

i put both on the sata master inputs(the red ones)- i did this before so i think the drivers on the windows cd helped the windows install reconize the drive. the bios has always reconised it (drive that wasnt seen in windows).

now if i could just find a good program or find a way to transfer files- but now that i think. datalifeguard will probly work.

thanks, bye.

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no files showing
Oct 21, 2006 4:42PM PDT

not out of the woods yet- drive is showing, but cant access my user folder on drive. says that i dont have permissions. is there a procedure or settings i can adjust to allow me to acess the old SATA 1 drive main folder and files. thanks.

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That's the XP TAKE OWNERSHIP issue.
Oct 22, 2006 12:49AM PDT

Just type XP TAKE OWNERSHIP into google.com and pick the solution you like.

Bob

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will try google search
Oct 22, 2006 5:14AM PDT

ok i'll give the google search a try- ran into this problem before,but just formatted- dont want to lose files this time. thanks again.

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it worked!
Oct 22, 2006 7:58AM PDT

thanks alot man- you the man. you really help me. cant figure out how i got the drive to be reconized. my first Motherboard (before this new one that i used old drive in)stopped working. and i found two viruses on old drive, but only after it was reconized. do you think the windows cd had something to do with it, when i reinstalled the drivers( but it was already showing in bios, and disk manager- just not in My Computer?, and no hardware issues in device manager? any way this is what i knew could happen with these drives, and we worked it out.

so thanks again for the info BOB- the last bit totally helped. i'ld like to know what you think allowed the drive to be reconized, or was it a quirky thing. thanks

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one more thing
Oct 22, 2006 8:15AM PDT

sorry forgot to ask this, will try it. but i should have no problems no doing a simply drag and drop from one drive to the next to transfer files- this could however spead a virus right.

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Something about Windows.
Oct 22, 2006 8:20AM PDT

I'm sure you've read stories where we uninstall and reinstall software and it works the second time. I can't explain it.

Bob