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mpidel

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December 10th, 2007 00:00

e510 second sata drive, drive not detected,400g

i went through all the steps, no second drive not detected. at F2 boot up it seems i can not get it to recognize the second drive either. it is a 400 g, the oe hd is 160. i did see a flash when installing the hd about the registry needed to be changed to accept a large hd, that seemed to go through ok. connections all tight , doble checked, i have installed hd before. wondering if hd is no good, seagate wizard does not detect it .
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    mpidel

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    Posted December 10th, 2007 00:00

    nevermind, i figured it oput and have itworking, i though the second sata drive was in the on, but it was in the off, and unfamiliarity with the set up page messed me up. used the proper key to change the setting to on and saved it
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    Posted December 10th, 2007 13:00

    mpidel, I have issue with my second SATA drive (External) also in me E510. Although, I can get the system to recognize it, it does perform at SATA speeds. Appear to be some sort of conflict. It takes over 11 hours to back up 175 GB of data. I have downloaded and installed all relevant driver updates to no avail. I had the same issue with the USB drive, but a driver update fixed this. Have you experienced this issue? Any Suggestions? Do you have a separate SATA card, or did you use a eSATA extension from the motherboard? Thanks.
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    Posted December 11th, 2007 02:00

    i used the extra sata connector on the motherboard,i am wondering now whether i should try a system restore to the point before i messed with everything.
    i realized that a lot of my programs are not working properly.
    after i got the new hd up and running , before th boot up failure, i used a duplicate finder software and moved all the  older duplicates to a folder on the new hard drive
    i now realize that i was using a lot of those files, my firefox bookmarks are gone, quicken will not load up. Missing files. So i need these files back.
    i want to make sure though if i do a system restore i will not compound the problem, since the new hd is no longer installed.
    i guess i could try and install the new hd again .
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