WD Caviar 80gb secondary IDE drive

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Ok guys... I had a WD 80gb Caviar HDD in my old Dell, it has alot of important files on it that I am trying to get, so I pulled out the IDE cable that came with my P6T Deluxe, plugged it in to the MB, too the Hard drive, and plugged in the power cable.

I also swapped the jumper on the HDD to "Slave" it was on "CS" not sure what that means, but I assumed it made the drive the Master drive.


Anyway, PC boots up fine, but HDD is not detected on bootup, but I can see it in device manager in Vista, but the drive is not showing up in explorer for me to explore through....


Any help is appreciated guys!!!!!
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Myself
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 920
    Motherboard
    ASUS P6T Deluxe
    Memory
    6gb MUSHKIN DDR3 1866
    Graphics Card(s)
    TWO x EVGA NVidia GTX 285
    Sound Card
    Soundblaster Extreme
    Monitor(s) Displays
    ASUS 24inch 2ms LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    4 x OCZ Vertex 60GB, 1 x Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB, 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black
    PSU
    Corsair 1000W
    Case
    Coolermaster HAF 932
    Cooling
    Water cooled
    Keyboard
    Saitek Cyborg Deluxe
    Mouse
    Microsoft Regular USB w/wheel
    Internet Speed
    Cable 15mbps
nevermind guys, I managed to fix it :) shows up in windows vista now :)
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Myself
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 920
    Motherboard
    ASUS P6T Deluxe
    Memory
    6gb MUSHKIN DDR3 1866
    Graphics Card(s)
    TWO x EVGA NVidia GTX 285
    Sound Card
    Soundblaster Extreme
    Monitor(s) Displays
    ASUS 24inch 2ms LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    4 x OCZ Vertex 60GB, 1 x Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB, 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black
    PSU
    Corsair 1000W
    Case
    Coolermaster HAF 932
    Cooling
    Water cooled
    Keyboard
    Saitek Cyborg Deluxe
    Mouse
    Microsoft Regular USB w/wheel
    Internet Speed
    Cable 15mbps
FYI - CS means Cable Select. Thats the best way to set it!
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion Elite 9000 Series/m9040n
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 GHz 1333MHz FSB
    Motherboard
    Asus IPIBL-LA (Berkeley-GL8E)
    Memory
    8GB 800MHz DDR2 5-5-5-15 by G.Skill
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA Nvidia 512MB DDR3 9800 GTX+ Superclocked Edition
    Sound Card
    Realtek (built-in) ALC888S HD 7.1
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung HLN567W 56" DLP
    Hard Drives
    (2) WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3Gb/s in RAID 0
    PSU
    PC Power and Cooling PPCS500D 500W
    Case
    HP Media Center Edition
    Cooling
    Thermaltake
    Keyboard
    Adesso WKB-3000UB 2.4GHz Wireless w/Optical Trackball
    Internet Speed
    FIOS 20MB down/5MB up
    Other Info
    Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1600 MCE ATSC/NTSC/FM (*QAM)
man this drive is insane slow compared to my Velociraptor 300gb hahahahha.... i didnt realize just how slow my old PC really was hahaha.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Myself
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 920
    Motherboard
    ASUS P6T Deluxe
    Memory
    6gb MUSHKIN DDR3 1866
    Graphics Card(s)
    TWO x EVGA NVidia GTX 285
    Sound Card
    Soundblaster Extreme
    Monitor(s) Displays
    ASUS 24inch 2ms LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    4 x OCZ Vertex 60GB, 1 x Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB, 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black
    PSU
    Corsair 1000W
    Case
    Coolermaster HAF 932
    Cooling
    Water cooled
    Keyboard
    Saitek Cyborg Deluxe
    Mouse
    Microsoft Regular USB w/wheel
    Internet Speed
    Cable 15mbps
man this drive is insane slow compared to my Velociraptor 300gb hahahahha.... i didnt realize just how slow my old PC really was hahaha.
One other issue you are up against in case you aren't aware. Vista is much much slower at copying or moving files around then XP, I mean really Slow!
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion Elite 9000 Series/m9040n
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 GHz 1333MHz FSB
    Motherboard
    Asus IPIBL-LA (Berkeley-GL8E)
    Memory
    8GB 800MHz DDR2 5-5-5-15 by G.Skill
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA Nvidia 512MB DDR3 9800 GTX+ Superclocked Edition
    Sound Card
    Realtek (built-in) ALC888S HD 7.1
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung HLN567W 56" DLP
    Hard Drives
    (2) WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3Gb/s in RAID 0
    PSU
    PC Power and Cooling PPCS500D 500W
    Case
    HP Media Center Edition
    Cooling
    Thermaltake
    Keyboard
    Adesso WKB-3000UB 2.4GHz Wireless w/Optical Trackball
    Internet Speed
    FIOS 20MB down/5MB up
    Other Info
    Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1600 MCE ATSC/NTSC/FM (*QAM)
man this drive is insane slow compared to my Velociraptor 300gb hahahahha.... i didnt realize just how slow my old PC really was hahaha.
One other issue you are up against in case you aren't aware. Vista is much much slower at copying or moving files around then XP, I mean really Slow!



i am having no issues whatsoever moving files on my WD 300gb Veloc???? just on the older drive, it is old as the dinosaurs.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Myself
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 920
    Motherboard
    ASUS P6T Deluxe
    Memory
    6gb MUSHKIN DDR3 1866
    Graphics Card(s)
    TWO x EVGA NVidia GTX 285
    Sound Card
    Soundblaster Extreme
    Monitor(s) Displays
    ASUS 24inch 2ms LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    4 x OCZ Vertex 60GB, 1 x Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB, 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black
    PSU
    Corsair 1000W
    Case
    Coolermaster HAF 932
    Cooling
    Water cooled
    Keyboard
    Saitek Cyborg Deluxe
    Mouse
    Microsoft Regular USB w/wheel
    Internet Speed
    Cable 15mbps
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