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    ASUS G71GX second hard drive problem

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Bichop, Aug 13, 2009.

  1. Bichop

    Bichop Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a G71GX from BB 2 weeks now and today i decided to add a second hard drive in the free bay, i seems to work because it shows on the BIOS but in vista i got nothing, it just doesn't show. Any ideas? i did a search on the forums and didnt find anything like this.

    Best regards
    Armando
     
    Bichop, Aug 13, 2009
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    MasterShake89 Notebook Evangelist

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    i honestly dont know anything about installing hard drives so i probably cant help you, but did you get another mounting bracket for the second drive? if so from where?
     
    MasterShake89, Aug 13, 2009
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    It probably shows up in computer management. You most likely just need to initialize and partition it.
     
    Achilleus, Aug 13, 2009
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  4. Bichop

    Bichop Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for your answer but it doesn't show on computer management, the drive is already partitioned and formatted, its from my old laptop. As I said it shows on BIOS and on POST but vista doesn't recognize it.
    I will search for new drivers lets see if i'm lucky.
     
    Bichop, Aug 13, 2009
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    Just to confirm, when you look in disk management you only see your stock disk?
     
    SoundOf1HandClapping, Aug 13, 2009
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  6. Bichop

    Bichop Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes only that, the seagate 500 Gb drive. I will try the second disk on my desktop to chech if its working ok
     
    Bichop, Aug 14, 2009
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    After that, try putting your stock HDD into the secondary slot, and see if you can boot from there.
     
    SoundOf1HandClapping, Aug 14, 2009
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    Congratulations on the purchase, likely at the old $1150 price. Same unit is now $1300.
     
    User Retired 2, Aug 14, 2009
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  9. Bichop

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    I think i found the problem, the HDD is password protected from my old notebook, and looking in the bios of the G71 looks like it doesnt have HDD password protection, so the HDD is unusable, i will try to remove the password from the HDD and see if it works
     
    Bichop, Aug 15, 2009
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  10. Bichop

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    I found the problem, was the password on the HDD that prevented it to run on the OS. I removed putting it on another laptop and worked fine. Now i have a question: why the G50 had HDD pasword protection on BIOS and the G71 not? it's supposed to be newer...
     
    Bichop, Aug 17, 2009
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    I have a G51-RX05 from BB.
    Similar problem here and you may have the same issue.
    The HDD that cam ewith the laptop is still the main HDD. I also added a 2nd 250GB HDD to the 2nd bay as my data backup HDD (got sick of USB 2.0 xfer speeds with copying GB's of data).
    Up until a week ago all was fine. Now all of a sudden when I turn on my laptop the 1st time both HDD's and the DVD drive are detected.
    THEN just before it hits the windows loading screen the laptop reboots and when the BIOS post screen comes up again it only detects the main HDD on SATA port 0 and the DVD drive on SATA port 1. It will not detect the 250GB HDD in the 2nd port on SATA port 4.
    I can use the main power switch to turn off the system and then turn it back on again but the same thing happens over and over again. 2nd drive will not recognize.
    Anyone have a solution or ever experience this issue before?
     
    enunziata, Jan 3, 2010
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  12. Lanaya

    Lanaya Templar Assassin

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    Open bios-> go to the last page and select load user defaults and exit. do this TWICE (i.e do it once, reboot, go back into bios, and do it again)
     
    Lanaya, Jan 3, 2010
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