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01-14-2008, 11:57 PM
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| P35-DS3L 2nd HDD simple enough, trying to get my second HDD to work. i have a SATA drive as my master. this board only has 1 IDE slot so i currently have my 2nd IDE HDD as master and my IDE DVD drive as slave. i've tried cable select, and other combinations, but i can't get the drive to work. whats weird is in the bios it's there, in the device manager it's there, in Disk Management it comes up as a Dynamic unreadable disk? it gives me the option to convert to basic but i will lose all my data. any suggestions? thanks.
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01-15-2008, 01:27 AM
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| Re: P35-DS3L 2nd HDD I think I got to this exact problem once in the past, but I do not remember now how I did it. I also can't know for sure if you convert HDD from dynamic to basic from Disk Management, data will be lost or not. One good and safe way to do it is, putting the HDD in a USB 3.5" enclosure and connect to the PC. Once you do so, you can temporarily copy all your data into the SATA and reformat the IDE hard disk. *** Personal comment: This is one reason that I always have at least one spare HDD around just in case. Spending for a spare HDD seems crazy, but it saves a lot of headache when it strikes at the wrong time or in urgency.
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01-18-2008, 11:09 AM
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| Re: P35-DS3L 2nd HDD ok, i have tried almost everything. what would cause a drive to show up as 'dynamic' in windows? all i did was take this drive, slave drive, out of my previous computer, build a new one, and try and use it again as a slave drive? can anyone confirm if converting it to a 'basic' drive will in fact erase all data? i dont understand what did this, or why i would have to do this?? any ideas? note: i have not tried it as usb drive, hoping to solve this without having to purchase an enclosure. thanks.
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