not recognising 2 drives

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I looked for that in the bios features I didn't see anything about turning on the ports.I`ll give this a check later and post back what I find.With this machine still having the stock mob from the factory dell inspiron 531 theres not many features in the bios that you can change.
 

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This I have done already,I also made sure that all the sata ribbons are in order to how I want devices to boot up.Starting with the dvdr drive,primary drive and secondary drive.
I looked in the bios to check the boot order and it only shows one of the hard drives.The only way I can get this computer to recognize the hard drive manual by changing the ribbons around and leaving the other drive unplugged.
I have another puter that Im on right now it has no problem recognizing 2 drives.They both show up in computer using windows 7.
Im going to try a different drive in the other computer to see if it makes any difference but I have to get a eide to sata interface converter before I can do this.Im out of sata drives at the moment.