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Alright I have a Giga-Byte mother board (Duo Pro) that supports SATA. I have two SATA hard drives, on is the Existing Western Digital 80G (this one windows is messed up on and in order to fix I need to setup my old drive is a Slave so that I do not lose my data on that drive. I have a new SATA Hitachi 160 gig Drive that I am going to make my master.

So far what has happened is that I can get the BIOS to read only one of the SATA drives. It sees the 160 gig which I plugged into ATA slot 0 on my mother board. This Hitachi drive does not have any jumpers that I can find. I have plugged my old Western Digital drive (80g) into the slot marked ATA 1. The western Digital Caveat ATA 1 drive does have jumpers to it but no where in the documentation for the drive or on-line do I see which jumpers settings to use to make this a slave drive. I have also tried different jumper settings in a hope to stumble across it. So far no dice.

So my question is to you how do I get my BIOS to see Both SATA drives? This is my first experience with SATA drives, I am starting to wish I got a mother board with just normal IDE connections.

Please help.

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SATA drives don't have any jumpers to configure. Check to see if all connections are tight. See if you can feel the WD drive spinning.

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