Question : Problem: IDE/PATA disk not showing up in Windows

Hi,

~~Situation:
I have two physical hard drives and a DVD drive.

1) SATA hard drive with MBR and Windows installed, with several logical partitions (3 for linux, one for windows itself and one for installed apps and games)

2) IDE hard drive for storage and music, etc.

3) IDE DVD burner

My mobo is Asus P5B-Deluxe. It has only one IDE controller. I have both IDE devices hooked up via one cable with the jumpers set to Cable Select.

~~Problem:

My second hard drive, the IDE drive with only one logical partition, does not show up in My Computer. The DVD drive however, does show up. I looked in Disk Management and the hard drive isn't there, but the DVD drive is there. To complicate things, it seems that the hard drive will show up occasionally in Windows. Every third time or so I boot up, it's there and fully functional. Additionally, I ALWAYS see it in the BIOS with no problems.

Any ideas/suggestions? I've tried a few things already but to no avail. I have BIOS version 1216.

Answer : Problem: IDE/PATA disk not showing up in Windows

Or the oher way around. If using Mster slave, set both to CS instead.
Also use the vendor diagnostics to check your IDE drive.

Disk :
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm               Drive Fitness Test
http://www.seagate.com/maxtor/           Maxtor & Quantum
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/support/hard-drives/software_utilities.html#diagnostic Fujitsu
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm     Samsung
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html        
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/
      Seagate
http://support.wdc.com/download/#diagutils                    Western Digital
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm             IBM & Hitachi  DFT

you can also boot from a knoppix cd, to be sure the hard is still ok :
ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V4.0.2CD-2005-09-23-EN.iso

I hope this helps !