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Slaving Secondary Laptop Hdd

post #1 of 10
8/28/08 at 9:14am
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Hello all.
I have an ASUS M70Vm-X1 laptop with a primary 320gb hard drive which is factory partitioned with two separate 150GB partitions. There is a separate bay for a secondary HDD but when I install my secondary 120GB western Digital HDD it is not recognized in the system once booted up. However it IS recognized in the BIOS. What do I do?
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post #2 of 10
4/13/10 at 11:49am
I'm having a similar problem with my M70Vm-C1. It came from the factory with 2, 250GB HDD pre-installed, but the machine doesn't see the 2nd HDD. BIOS sees it, and I have physically seen it when I removed the cover, but the machine doesn't, and I keep getting "Low Memory" warnings, even though I have 500GB. I think this all occurred when I updated the BIOS to remedy the machine not coming out of sleep mode. I believe it was on 205, I should have just went to 207, but I went for the gusto and went for the latest, BIOS 210. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I want to dual boot the machine with Vista 32 and Win7 64, and I need to be able to see the 2nd HDD.
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post #3 of 10
4/13/10 at 11:59am
Does it show up under Disk Management in Windows? Sometimes it will be recognized but not mounted, so you would need to manually assign a drive letter to it in order to have access to it in Windows.

Dual-booting shouldn't be a problem since the BIOS recognizes it. I'd just pop in the Windows 7 disc and the second hard drive should show up as an option during the installation process.
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post #4 of 10
4/13/10 at 12:15pm
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Originally Posted by Djembe View Post
Does it show up under Disk Management in Windows? Sometimes it will be recognized but not mounted, so you would need to manually assign a drive letter to it in order to have access to it in Windows.

Dual-booting shouldn't be a problem since the BIOS recognizes it. I'd just pop in the Windows 7 disc and the second hard drive should show up as an option during the installation process.
That what I meant, I can see the 2nd HDD in BIOS ,but not in disk management. Wouldn't ASUS have configured it? I thought I use to see 4 drives, the 2 HDD being partioned equally into 125GB sections, now I only see the one partioned into two 125GB. The one is completely gone. So how would I go about doing this.
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post #5 of 10
4/13/10 at 12:47pm
Do you have any unknown devices that show up in Device Manager?
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post #6 of 10
4/13/10 at 1:10pm
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Do you have any unknown devices that show up in Device Manager?
No just the partioned C drive and the DVD/CD drive
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post #7 of 10
4/13/10 at 1:11pm
Do you know of any way to revert back to an earlier BIOS? After researching it, looks like BIOS 210 might be at fault.
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post #8 of 10
4/13/10 at 1:19pm
I haven't tried it myself, but one method I've heard about is to hit the reset hole/button with the end of a paper clip after removing the power cord and battery.
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post #9 of 10
4/13/10 at 1:23pm
Do you also have to disconnect the CMOS battery as well? I tried this already hoping to reset the BIOS to the original version, but it didn't.
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post #10 of 10
4/13/10 at 3:31pm
No, the CMOS battery only holds system settings and date & time, etc. The BIOS version and information is on the EEPROM chip and the only way I know to go back to an earlier version without sending it in to Asus is to hit the reset button like I described.
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