ATA Controller Questions

[DemonicPenguin]

I built a computer for my relative this past March and I hit a small obstacle on the way. I bought her this motherboard and it only contains two IDE ports. The setup I have right now is one DVD/CD-RW optical drive set as a slave and one Hitachi IDE 7200RPM HDD as the master. The other connection obviously belonging to my FDD. She wanted some information from her old computer (pictures, word documents, etc.) that I was not able to transfer at that time (only 56k and no CD Burner).
So to solve this I ended up just buying this ATA Controller. I plugged the old HDD into the ATA Controller correctly, installed the drivers, yadayada. I then restarted and it entered the controller BIOS and I selected the correct HDD. Basically, the drive never appears in Explorer. I went into disk management and the drive appears correctly (It's FAT32 by the way), I just can't alter any of the properties. The only option available to me is to delete the partition.

How do I get this drive to appear on Windows Explorer? :

New computer specs:
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Motherboard: GIGABYTE "GA-8I915G Pro" i915G Chipset Motherboard for Intel LGA775 CPU
CPU: Intel LGA775 2.8 GHz 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache, Hyper Threading enabled
HDD: IBM Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 80GB Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive

Old Gateway Essential 566C:
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CPU: Intel Celeron 566 MHz
Motherboard: ??? (Intel 810 Chipset)
HDD: 7.5GB Ultra ATA hard drive (I believe it's a Quantum Fireball)

Any ideas? Thanks ahead of time.

(That brings me to another question, is there a way to disable the controller BIOS screen from appearing everytime I start the computer? If not, oh well. :l)

Disk Management screen:
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[daniel49]

your controller link is a dead end. Is it a pci card you bought for the extra ide?

You have 4 sata ports on that board why aren't you using those. (and only 1 ide port that sucks)

 

[DemonicPenguin]

Yes, it is a PCI card. And why would I buy a SATA HDD (it's too late now that I've already purchased an IDE HDD and have loaded/activated Windows on it) that's $80 or so when I can just spend $25 on a PCI ATA Controller? Link fixed.

 

[daniel49]

I dunno why would you buy a board with 4 sata and one pata if you wanted standard ide to begin with?

does the drive show in your bios as a scsi? perhaps it needs to be enabled?
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/

theres some faq on thier website that deal with some bios questions have you browsed there yet? may not help but worth a try.

 

[DemonicPenguin]

I've updated all the old drivers up to the most recent version and upgrade the BIOS to the latest release as well. So all of that stuff is taken care of. As for enabling it, I've done so in computer management (is this what you're asking?). And in my system BIOS, I don't see anything with 'SCSI' in it. I'll look again.

In computer managment I see the hdd under disk drives but whenever I go to properties and hit the volumes tab, everything is null, just followed by a hyphen.

Should I just toggle around with master/slave/cable select options? It's set as master on the host adapter...:\