I am using a Toshiba portege a600 and installed a hard drive tray and hdd now the computer is giving me a cd rom error and is not recognizing the drive immediately but will pick it up in time until i shut down then I have to wait for it to recognize it again. Is there something I need to change in the bios
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Re: Replacing dvd with second hard drive
It sounds like it. -
Re: Replacing dvd with second hard drive
SATA settings ?Comment
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Re: Replacing dvd with second hard drive
did you set it to slave ?Comment
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Re: Replacing dvd with second hard drive
toshiba bioses are fucked, a lot of stuff is hidden or hard-coded.
i have had drive problems on several of them because of fixed ide settingsComment
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this seems to be the case here not many options to make changes in the bios so was there a solution?
My drive works fine once it gets recognized as long as I don't shut down the laptop which is weird? Windows 10 I thought support plug and playLast edited by davg; 10-16-2019, 05:35 AM.Comment
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Re: Replacing dvd with second hard drive
windows gets drive info from the bios.
interestingly Linux does not - i used to run an old motherboard with a 137gig drivesize limit,
i used a 40gig bootdrive amd serveral big drives for storage that the bios wouldnt see!!
maybe you can mod the bios - it depends on the version.
there are some editors floating around.
go ask on bios-mods.comComment
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Re: Replacing dvd with second hard drive
What is most puzzling about this is the fact that it do eventually recognize the drive but about 5 min after powering up which almost suggest that the bios recognizes it as a CD Rom on POST and Windows recognize it as a drive once up and running. I tried this same setup in a Acer Laptop and that worked without an issue at all no need to change any settings bios or otherwise??Comment
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Re: Replacing dvd with second hard drive
it's possible the drive is being picked up by a background task like smart checking.Comment
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Hi everyone,
I'm in need of assistance with a Dell Precision 5820 Tower. The BIOS is locked with "Dell Security Manager," preventing access to the HDD-1 hard drive.
**Background:**
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**What I've Tried So Far:**
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