I have an older Dell machine that I plan to use as a backup server for my family. It has 2 SATA HDDs, 1 IDE DVD drive, 1 IDE HDD
The SATA drives are recognized in BIOS. The IDE-DVD and IDE-HDD are not. Interestingly, when looking at the folder structure in Windows Explorer, all the devices appear. When looking at "Device Manager", all the devices appear. Everything actually functions when windows boots up. Trouble is, when powering on, the boot -screen tells me the Disk-3 and Disk-4 are missing. Then waits for me to press F1 to continue, or F2 to enter BIOS. If if press F1, windows fires up, and all works.
Trouble is, I want to schedule this to wake up on its own, run back ups, then shut off. I am learning how to do that, that is not the problem. Problem would be for the auto-turn-on, to be stuck in the BIOS screen waiting for someone to do something. That's a no-go for my intended purpose.
I have dillignetly gone through the "Master/Slave" configuration of the IDE drives. The IDE-DVD drive is Master, with a jumper, and on the end/black connector of the ribbon cable. The IDE-HDD is Slave (no jumper) and is attached to the middle/grey connector.
I have gone into Control Panel and eventually get into "Disk Manager". Here I see something that is perhaps the clue but I do not know how to rectify. The following is listed (and/or shown in the graphic panel of Disk Mgr):
>Disk 0, "Bright Blue", drive-name, Layout=Partition, Type=Basic [this is a 750GB IDE HDD]
>Disk 1, "Dark Blue", System, Layout=Partition, Type=Basic [this is a 80GB SATA HDD where I have Windows loaded]
>Disk 2, "Olive-Green", drive-name, Layout=Simple, Type=Dynamic [this is a 1TB SATA HDD]
>CD-ROM 0 [this is the DVD-RW device]
I have used drive-name instead of the actual name of the drives (not pertinent to the problem).
Another computer I have, that has multiple disks (granted all SATA), has each drive as
Layout=Simple and Type=Basic.
Perhaps that is the trouble? If so, how to I make the corrections?
Thank you
The SATA drives are recognized in BIOS. The IDE-DVD and IDE-HDD are not. Interestingly, when looking at the folder structure in Windows Explorer, all the devices appear. When looking at "Device Manager", all the devices appear. Everything actually functions when windows boots up. Trouble is, when powering on, the boot -screen tells me the Disk-3 and Disk-4 are missing. Then waits for me to press F1 to continue, or F2 to enter BIOS. If if press F1, windows fires up, and all works.
Trouble is, I want to schedule this to wake up on its own, run back ups, then shut off. I am learning how to do that, that is not the problem. Problem would be for the auto-turn-on, to be stuck in the BIOS screen waiting for someone to do something. That's a no-go for my intended purpose.
I have dillignetly gone through the "Master/Slave" configuration of the IDE drives. The IDE-DVD drive is Master, with a jumper, and on the end/black connector of the ribbon cable. The IDE-HDD is Slave (no jumper) and is attached to the middle/grey connector.
I have gone into Control Panel and eventually get into "Disk Manager". Here I see something that is perhaps the clue but I do not know how to rectify. The following is listed (and/or shown in the graphic panel of Disk Mgr):
>Disk 0, "Bright Blue", drive-name, Layout=Partition, Type=Basic [this is a 750GB IDE HDD]
>Disk 1, "Dark Blue", System, Layout=Partition, Type=Basic [this is a 80GB SATA HDD where I have Windows loaded]
>Disk 2, "Olive-Green", drive-name, Layout=Simple, Type=Dynamic [this is a 1TB SATA HDD]
>CD-ROM 0 [this is the DVD-RW device]
I have used drive-name instead of the actual name of the drives (not pertinent to the problem).
Another computer I have, that has multiple disks (granted all SATA), has each drive as
Layout=Simple and Type=Basic.
Perhaps that is the trouble? If so, how to I make the corrections?
Thank you
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Homebuilt
- CPU
- AMD AM1
- Motherboard
- MSI AM1i
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- on board
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Microsoft