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    Replacing dvd with second hard drive

    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

    #2
    Re: Replacing dvd with second hard drive

    It sounds like it.

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      #3
      Re: Replacing dvd with second hard drive

      Originally posted by diif View Post
      It sounds like it.
      Any help on what? I did check the bios but don't see anything there related to the Rom other than in the boot priority and that is set to boot from HDD

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        #4
        Re: Replacing dvd with second hard drive

        SATA settings ?

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          #5
          Re: Replacing dvd with second hard drive

          Originally posted by diif View Post
          SATA settings ?
          Nowhere in the bios settings to make changes to sata

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            #6
            Re: Replacing dvd with second hard drive

            did you set it to slave ?

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              #7
              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 settings

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                #8
                Re: Replacing dvd with second hard drive

                Originally posted by stj View Post
                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 settings
                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 play
                Last edited by davg; 10-16-2019, 05:35 AM.

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                  #9
                  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.com

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                    #10
                    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??

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                      #11
                      Re: Replacing dvd with second hard drive

                      it's possible the drive is being picked up by a background task like smart checking.

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