HDD not Detected

[!mitationRust]

See I just hooked up my new Hitachi ( yeah I said it ) to my MOBO and had to tweak the BIOS to get it to recognize both HDD's. I had to turn on a "combine option" [enables PATA and SATA] and then turn on my SATA to boot master SATA primary socket1. I have a recognize feature in this BIOS as well that recognizes new hardware.....which reminds me. What is your screen saying while doing a memory test and IDE seek etc...? What type of BIOS you working with? Did the External HDD come with software or is it just considered to be "plug-n-play"? Do all external HDD's show up under "My Computer"? (silly, but just curious)

Sometimes USB's are a little finicky..... I have four on this board and it only likes my top left one with some equipment.

[AngelicKnight]

What type of BIOS you working with?

Is there a way to check that from Windows? If not, I'll check it next time I can reboot the box.

Did the External HDD come with software or is it just considered to be "plug-n-play"?

It came with software to install a driver on a Win98 system, but WinXP is supposed to already have all the necessary drivers.

Do all external HDD's show up under "My Computer"?

Yes, and I have successfully used another external HDD (a Netdisk) via the sane USB2.0 card before.

Also, I just set up another XP Home system on a spare box, and on the freshly installed system it gave the exact same symptoms. Is detected by hardware manager, drivers installed successfully, then doesn't show up as a drive under My Computer or Computer Management. So it's behaving the just the same on two different XP boxes.

[Tim_axe]

AngelicKnight - Take a look at my last post. Make sure the Hard Drives you're connecting to that adapter are set to be the "Master" of their bus. Otherwise the IDE/USB adapter will have symptoms similar to what you are experiencing.

It happened to me once when I put an old 4gb Quantum Fireball drive into my USB enclosure...it was set to secondary and the IDE/USB adapter couldn't find the drive though My Computer / Hardware Manger showed the adapter...

[!mitationRust]

I apologize I didn't click on the links to see the hardware................ I would think that drive is not going to show up till the BIOS recognizes it........... I've never plugged in a regular HDD while the comp was on and then had the OS pick it up...........That's been my exp. Try booting from that drive through USB. Then switch it back........sometimes my drives won't show up till I boot from them.

Now my BIOS is severely robust and it has USB-HDD options etc.....

If you want to check out the BIOS:

BIOSIdentify1.exe

Drop it in admin prompt hit enter and it gives the BIOS info.

Example:

 ----------------------------------------------------[[email protected]]---
  BIOS Info Tool v1.3,          Copyright(c) 2004 by Serge Galkin (StarGaz0r)
  Win9x/Win2k/XP version                              e-mail: [email protected]
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 ¦ ROM BIOS by Award Software International Inc., http://www.award.com/
   BIOS ID Strings: 12/28/2004-i875P-W83627H-6A79BA19C-28, 6A79BA19
   Model: Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG (Medallion BIOS), 12/28/04
   Vendor: Abit Computer Corp.
   Version String: 28
   Designed for: Intel 875P (Canterwood)
   Peripheral bus(es): ISA/PCI

 ¦ DMI.BaseBoardInformation:
    Manufacturer: http://www.abit.com.tw/
    Product: IC7/IC7-G(Intel i875P-ICH5)
    Version: 1.0/1.1

 ¦ DMI.SystemInformation:
    none

 ¦ DMI.BIOSInformation:
    Vendor Name: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
    BIOS Version: 6.00 PG
    BIOS Starting Address Segment: E000h
    BIOS Release Date: 12/28/2004
    BIOS ROM Size: 512 KB

 ¦ BIOS update interface: awdflash hook
    [v] Supported Flash ROM Size: 4 Mbit
    [v] Flash Chip Block(s) Size: 64KB
    [v] NT Flash Support

 ¦ Supported features:
    [v] IntelR ACPI 0.9/1.x
    [v] System Management BIOS w/DMI v2.2
    [v] PCI IRQ Routing Table v1.0 (correct)
    [v] EL TORITO CD-ROM Boot Specification