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Okay, so that title is really messy and non-linear, as least to me, and that's because I don't know how to properly title it, but I can describe it.

Essentially I have 3 hard drives in my machine. They were all working fine and appearing on Windows.

Yesterday, I formatted one of those drives to have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on it. To ensure that I didn't mess anything up with the other drives, I disconnected them from my machine. After installing Ubuntu, I came back onto Windows to see if it still saw my second hard drive (as I know it won't see the other hard drive since its got Ubuntu on it)... It didn't see my hard drive --- I've been in Disk Management as well and it only sees Local Disk (C) and a System Reserved partition.

My hard drives are as follows; 1 SSD - 500GIG, 1 HDD - 320GIG [IDE], 1 HDD - 400GIG(?) [SATA/ATA]

When I go into my BIOS, it sees the hard drive with Ubuntu on it, which is the SATA/ATA but does not see the IDE one and where IDE Primary Drive is, it just says undetected.

How can I get my machine to detect this hard drive... Everything was working fine before I put Ubuntu on one of my hard drive - not to blame it.. (IRONY).

PS: I have it as "SATA/ATA" as I'm not sure which one it actually is.. It connects through SATA but I believe I've seen Speccy classify it as ATA.

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  • as I know it won't see the other hard drive since its got Ubuntu on it You should see all drives in Disk Management anyway.
    – Tom Yan
    Jul 24, 2016 at 16:07
  • "IDE" (PATA) drives have that master/slave nuisance. You have to connect the drive to the port on the cable that matches with the jumper setting on the drive. I suppose if the master port doesn't work, it should then work with the slave port, or vice versa, though. betaarchive.com/imageupload/1304159566.or.33063.gif
    – Tom Yan
    Jul 24, 2016 at 16:13
  • What if you don't have the little piece that you are supposed to use to indicate whether it's a master/slave? I don't have that piece and it has worked just fine for me - up until Ubuntu, that is.
    – Jesse
    Jul 24, 2016 at 17:25
  • Well I faintly remember that there were some PATA disks that came out in the later days do not have jumper setting but instead can adapt automatically.
    – Tom Yan
    Jul 25, 2016 at 14:40
  • I found the piece to select what the drive is MASTER/SLAVE/ETC and it still didn't do anything.
    – Jesse
    Jul 25, 2016 at 23:40

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