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ASRock MB sees 1 SATA drive only.

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October 11, 2013 5:27:13 PM

I have an ASRock MB in a PowerSpec G310 machine from Micro Center. Nice system.

The MB is an FM2A85Xtreme6
AMD A10 Quad core. 8 gig RAM.
It came with a SATA 1tb HD, and I'm trying to add a second SATA drive to store HiDef video files from my Canon camcorder for DVD work.

No matter what I try, the machine will not recognize the second HD. Both drives have been formatted. The BIOS knows it's there, but Windows 7 Pro does not. It will see either drive, only if connecting them one at a time.

This seems like it should be so simple to do, but I'm at my wits end. I've gotten no responses at the Micro Center forum, from Seagate, or even HP when I tried to install it in one of their machines.

Having graduated from IDE/SATA machines, this is my first all SATA, so I know I have a learning curve ahead of me.

TomsHardware is really my last hope for solving this.

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a c 544 G Storage
October 11, 2013 6:01:48 PM

What SATA ports are your 2 drives connected to?

Ports SATA3_7 & SATA3_8 have a BIOS setting called "SATA IDE Combined Mode". The default value of the setting is "Enabled".
I’m not sure what the setting is for.

If you have your drives connected to those two ports then move them to ports SATA3_1 & SATA3_2 and see if that helps. See page 14 of your motherboard manual for the location of the ports.

You should also make sure that you are on the latest BIOS version 2.30.
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October 11, 2013 7:24:41 PM

Unbelievable, it is. The DVD drive is on SATA3_8 so I plugged the new drive into SATA3_7. It shows up in the BIOS as such (ver 2.30A).

I booted the system, and I now have drives C: (boot/system/programs/storage), D: (DVD), E: (former boot partition), and F: (old system/programs/storage partition). E: and F: being the former boot/programs drive. C: being the new Seagate boot/programs drive.

It's working!! Being 64, I don't have that much hair to keep pulling it out. At least I still have more than my younger brother.
I was really starting to feel like Bill the Cat. (My avatar).

Now, Win 7 doesn't seem to have a native disk partitioning tool. Any recommendations?

Thanks much for the tips on SATA3_7 & 8.
I learnt something.
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a c 544 G Storage
October 11, 2013 7:47:55 PM

No problem! In Win 7 go to Windows Disk Management to create/delete a partition.
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October 11, 2013 8:07:59 PM

Excellent. I now have a drive E: for storage.
Getting used to Win 7 after running XP for almost a decade.
Thanks again.
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