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sata drive not being picked up by windows

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  • 17-11-2006 11:25pm
    #1
    Sniipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭


    I currently have 2 IDE hard drives in my computer. Today I bought a new hard drive. I put it in and booted up my machine. The raid screen (the screen after the bios screen) detects the Hard drive, but windows does not recognise it (Computer management->storage->disk management - no sign of it)

    What could be the problem?

    I pressed ctrl+s at the raid screen and I performed a low level format on the hard drive which took a good while, the I rebooted and still its not appearing. This is my first Sata drive, its not going smoothly for me. I'd appreciate some help or pointers??

    thanks


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    kmb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭kmb


    did you load the sata driver for the controller?

    regards

    kieran


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    Sniipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭Sniipe


    cheers for the prompt response kmb. No I've loaded nothing. Do u mean a disc that came with it (there was none) - Or something. Please excuse my ignorance in this matter


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    Sniipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭Sniipe


    I have an asus mainboard. It has a thing called SAM (SiI Array Manager)... the hard drive is coming up there... but I want it to be availible to explorer... any ideas plz?


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    awhir
    Registered Users Posts: 4,227 ✭✭✭awhir


    try the seagate disck manager program worked for me and ihad the same problem as you so should work m8.


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    Sniipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭Sniipe


    ah lads, this motherboard has 4 red sata/raid connections, and 2 black nforce ones hidden above the graphics card. Once I found them and slotted them it the thing worked first time. Phew. thanks for the replies anyway.


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    SeanW
    Registered Users Posts: 8,826 ✭✭✭SeanW


    some boards have 3rd party SATA controllers on board. If you use them, you will need to install the controllers drivers before you use the devices connected to them.


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    Sniipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭Sniipe


    cheers for the reply Sean. I tried to install the drivers, but they sucked big time and crashed my system with blue screen on multiple occasions. Thank god the nForce ones were there.


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