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I replaced the jumper and no longer receive any messages when booting. You have enabled me to salvage a 500 GB drive from my no longer functioning LaCie external drive. In the process you have...

I watched an Inspector Lewis Mystery and, as he solved his mystery, the solution to my computer problem popped into my head. I opened the Drives section of my Setup and found SATA drives 0 & 2 set...

I removed the jumper. Now when I boot I get:

Drive 4 not found: Parallel ATA, PATA-0 (PRI IDE Master)
Drive 5 not found: Parallel ATA, PATA-1 (PRI IDE Slave)
and I have to press F1 to continue....

The Disk Drives list did not change after Show Hidden Devices. Both before and after showed my 3 hard drives and a flash drive.

That generated a very, very long list. Could you please say what sort of item I should be looking for?

I don't see any clues in Disk Management.

Okay, I removed the working drive from the LaCie unit and installed it in the available slot in my PC and connected it using my DVD cable which I had to remove from my two DVD drives which I very...

Yes, but can I use a correct cable where the floppy cable is connected to the motherboard?

My cable is much too short between the two connectors but I think I have a solution. Can I use the other motherboard connector that is now in use for my floppy drive. I remember that the ribbon...

Yes, I agree but I believe the cause was the failed power supply for the LaCie unit which should have just shut down but, instead, sent incorrectly configured power (volts/amps). I have multiple...

In Diskpart I selected Disk 2 and tried to run "clean". Eventually I got the following error message - "The semaphore timeout period has expired. See the System Event Log for more information" -...

Reassembled and shows as disk "E" but not accessible. I ran "Diskpart" and it shows as Disk 2.

I'm back and my vision is better. I tried removing the jumper from the one drive that had it but it made no difference. Next step is to reassemble the external drive setup with just the one drive.

Chkdsk /r completed and found no errors. Should I run any other commands on that disk? Let's call it the good drive, okay?

I switched the end connector to the other drive and it continued to...

I'm confused. If the one drive is truly dead then why did windows see it and set up both when they were first connected and why does it now say that it cannot find Drive 4 and Drive 5? Also, once I...

The drive that was at the end connector is the one that was formatted and had a letter. Strangely, that drive came up as Drive 0 in Disk Management. When I had just that drive connected and booted...

No. My BIOS setup doesn't look like that. It is about 8 years old.

The drive is showing 465 GB available and they are 500 GB drives. If the drives are linked wouldn't there be a way to determine the total capacity of 930 GB?

I've installed both drives and noticed that one has a jumper in the first of 4 positions and the other has no jumpers. The first time I booted there was a problem so I entered Setup - Drives - SATA...

There is a cable like that connecting my two DVD drives to the motherboard except that it has an indent. The HD's inside my tower are WD Serial ATA. There is no other available connector site on my...

Ultra ATA - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10

I set size to 3 and got the text you see(?) but not the size I selected before typing anything. Below is what I got by highlighting and then selecting size 3.

I definitely did not use its own...

Thank you.

It did come set up for RAID but I converted it to function as one large drive. There was a card connected to the inputs and the ribbon connector plugged into that card.

I tried to...

The You Tube video was no help and I've had to ponder my drive case for days but the solution finally came to me as to how to open it. There are two Seagate disks connected by a ribbon cable but...

I found instruction videos on You Tube for opening the case but the drive images show cases a bit different from mine. I am tied up the rest of today and have a full schedule Wednesday day & night...