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Julian:
Have you tried a different sata cable?

jraju:
Hi,  From what you explain, it seems weird. As davis, said there is no slave in sata drive.
           You would have connected the other drive in the same computer, as another drive which is not recognized by your computer. If it is recognized by the other computer, it is definitely connection failure and fault may lie with the connections, or power cable failure.
                  There is no other explanation possible. May be hardware change service is not started. pl check the service in services.msc. I know that this may not be the case also.
                   How there is slave adjustment in sata, that i never heard  of

Heatz123:
Hello. Thank you for the replies.

If you read my original post, i do state that i have used the cables in different orders. In other words, the cable used for the main master drive running my OS have been switch and connected to the backup (Slave) with the cables previously used on the backup being hooked to the master. If they was the problem, then my PC simply would not boot into windows. I even swapped the ports and still no luck.

I have not run the slave on another computer. I run it in this computer externally from a caddie which installs and runs on this system fine. Hence why i am baffled as to why it refuses to show up when installed internally regardless of what cables i use. All the cables are working.

Removing the driver and installing does not cause it to install so it is simply not working from within the PC. I have run a lot of diagnostics with no results. I feel there is a registry issue at play, but the drive is not listed in the BIOS setup, either. I have had it running for quite a few years, too.

jraju:
Hi, then it is not a slave drive , it is another internal drive.  In Pata, there is master and slave, and in sata there is no such differentiation.
                        The system will boot from your Main drive which has been recognized , and which contains the OS and boot sector.
                        The internal drive, as you christened as slave does not have this Boot files and hence will not boot.
                          If the internal drive or the extra drive is shown in other computers and not in your bios, certainly it is having either a driver problem or Hard ware not detected problem.  will try further to give solution to this .

Heatz123:
DO you argue semantics here or do you understand what is actually happening and what my issue is? Master or slave is just a term here. I have also stated it as being a backup drive, too. It is just a damn drive run internally that is NOT used as my main drive. To me personally ( And i care not what YOU call it) the second drive is a slave drive. But WHAT does this have to do with the issue i have? No wonder this board has gone down the dump!

I do not need your help as you clearly have an issue with your ego.

You have no idea and that is the top and bottom of the fact. A simple admission to that fact would have been more suitable.

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