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Heatz123:
Good day.

I recently removed my computer drives - master and slave- when i went on holiday. I put the system back in order and recently noticed my slave drive has not shown up in "My Computer" list. I tried swapping the ribbon cables with no changes. So i swapped the position of both drives in case it was the power cable. Both are SATA so they use the same power cable. But still no changes. I removed the slave drive (F Drive) and placed it into an external caddie and booted up. It started to install driver for it and is running fine from there.

I can not run it from that location for a number of reasons i can not go into right here. So after that, i re installed it into the PC and still no change. It simply does not exist. I have run the boot set up on startup and it is not listed there. It is simply a ghost to the PC.

Any ideas what it could be or how i could sort this issue out?

Also, in hardware profiles under show hidden drives, it is listed and clicking this states it is not connected.

Thank you in advance.

DavisMcCarn:
SATA drives do not have a master or slave setting!  But; if its an older Dell, you may need to change which ports are enabled in the BIOS (F2).
What is the make and model of the PC?

Heatz123:
Hello. Thank you for the reply. It is a Dell Inspiron I core 3. Since i changed the ports around and there is no issue booting up windows and no other issues, i do not see it being anything related to BIOS settings. I have already looked in boot set up and there is no Hitachi drive listed there to set in boot order. It is only listed in hardware profiles when i set to "Show hidden drives) All my other drives that are not hooked up are listed there, too. That is just the drivers until i hook them via USB. But this drive works externally but not from inside the PC even though i have swapped ports and cables in both orders. Nothing changes. The PC boots as usual but no F drive.

I have also Uninstalled the driver and tried a reboot but it simply does not install. Clicking the driver from Hardware profiles tells me the drive is not plugged in. It is just the driver for it. The boot order would not change anything except cause the system to not boot from the master anyway even if it was listed which it is not.

I have also run All in One repair with every fix checked (Took hours) and nothing changed.

I must state that i have removed the drive before when i went away and F drive showed up fine.

DavisMcCarn:
What is the service tag number of that Dell? (It will let me see what you have, exactly)

Heatz123:
Good day.

What the heck has the service tag got to do with this? It is clearly nothing to do with the system but indeed a software issue. If i wiped the drive and run a fresh install, it will be fine. But that option is not an option for me. It can not happen.

There is nothing wrong with the PC itself or else the master drive would also have issues. The software has been corrupted many times.

It is a Dell Inspiron 620 i bought direct from Dell. I have run a system scan from Dell and there are no issues.

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