SATA Drive Hooked up to IDE Cable

[Chewy]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145034&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL081908&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL081908-_-Memory-_-L0B-_-20145034

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130085

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103211

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131013

[jmet]

Chewy, I'll have to wait until Big Brother is over before I can look to answer your questions...lol

I did have a 300GB IDE hard drive hooked via a <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816123006">PCI to IDE card</a> and it worked great.

[jmet]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...L0B-_-20145034

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130085

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103211

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131013

What were those links for?

[atifsh]

only jumper ull find on sata drive is very small on right side. u have to remove it for sata 3 gb/s to work, if left on ull drive will work as 1.5 only.
some older systems maynot support 3gb/s.

just a thought, did ur power connector for ur sata is proper installed / working.

[jmet]

Whilst booting up I have two options:

F2 = Setup

F12 = Boot Menu


When I press F2, under the Drives section it lists:

Drive 0 = SATA-0
Drive ID = ST3000110AS
Capacity = 80GB (this is the HD that came with the computer)
BIOS = This drive is controlled by the System BIOS
Link Speed = 3.0Gbs

Drive 1 = SATA-2
Drive ID = WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B0
Capacity = 500GB (this is the HD that I just purchased from newegg)
BIOS = This drive is controlled by the System BIOS
Link Speed = 3.0Gbps

Drive 2 = PATA-0 (PRI IDE Master) - (Drive I just bought off newegg)
Controller = Parallel ATA
Drive ID = LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1L

Drive 3 = PATA-1 (PRI IDE Slave)
Controller = Parallel ATA
Drive ID = _NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A


Then under SATA Operations it has two choices:

RAID Autodetect/ATA (RAID if signed drives, otherwise ATA) or RAID On (SATA is configured for RAID on every boot)

Its set on RAID Autodetect/ATA

So it is being seen by the BIOS

[jmet]

Go to wd site and download their free diagnostic tool.

That did it doc!

Download the "Data Lifeguard Tools" and was able to auto change registry to recognize HD over 137GB and made 2 250GB (actually 232GB)partitions out of the drive.

(Although I thought having "Service Pack 3" installed over came the issue with recognizing HD over 137GB but guess I was wrong)

Thanks everyone for their time and suggestions!

[Chewy]

I don't buy that expaination, the tools did something else, may just initialized the drive, but you had said the drive didn't show in device manager?

[jmet]

lol Chewy....I never looked in the device manager....it just wasn't showing up when I opened up "My Computer" window and it wasn't showing up when I went to "Disk Management" either.

[Chewy]

it was there in disk management hiding?

[jmet]

Now the SATA Lite-On drive I bought that I used that IDE to SATA adapter is locking up my entire computer every time I stick a DVD in.

[jmet]

I'm just going to reformat my computer lol

[dr_ml422]

Hi jmet. I'm lol myself cause I think you have the same dell I have. dimension e310? If not, really not relevant. dell hell like chewy says. also so much we could do w/entry level computer if that's the case. If not did you go to dell's site and make sure you got a compatible hd for your system? Just a thought. Also my 500gb hd that I bought 4 my new build wasn't being recognized either until I hooked the 250hd in sata 0 and the 500hd in sata 1. But I have 6 sata ports on my mobo. Why not try hooking up the 500gb alone and partition it however and use the 2nd sata port 4 your lite-on. Just a suggestion. It's a pita 4 the clean install but you'll get that lite-on working most likely.

[dr_ml422]

only jumper ull find on sata drive is very small on right side. u have to remove it for sata 3 gb/s to work, if left on ull drive will work as 1.5 only.
some older systems maynot support 3gb/s.

just a thought, did ur power connector for ur sata is proper installed / working.

atifsh I just checked my sata hd and it's jumpered to the 1.5 like you said. My mobo supports 3gb/s. Should I remove it will that speed things up or w/e it's suppose to do? Thnx.

[atifsh]

if ur mobo supports it yes make it do 3gb/s.... will it speed up things ... im not sure cause no one is

http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0...-3-versus.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=sata+1.5+vs+3gb%2Fs&rls=com.microsoft:*&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

[dr_ml422]

I'm w/you atifsh. Everyone has a gripe w/something somewhere. My take. It's better to have it and not need it then to need it and not have it. 5 yr. warranty on seagate barracuda so I'm not going to sweat anything. I pulled off the jumper. Let it do w/e it can do.