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    A8N-SLI Deluxe: XP can't see 2nd SATA drive

    OK - Major Progress Rei-installed the Chipset Drivers (actually 6.39 from guru3d) and this time installed the IDE drivers. Last time I skipped this as the help message said it wasn't important unless you were using RAID - which I'm not. Straight after install, I had the 6 IDE entries and...
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    A8N-SLI Deluxe: XP can't see 2nd SATA drive

    OK - Progress. I went into Device Manager > Hardware > and sure enough under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers there are 3 Primary IDE Channel and 3 Secondary IDE Channel entries - each with a Device 0 and Device 1 under Advanced settings. When I did my original install, I disabled all the...
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    A8N-SLI Deluxe: XP can't see 2nd SATA drive

    Ah Yes - Action>refresh and Action>Rescan Tried both of these already with no joy I'm afraid. I have been reading around and wonder if you or anybody can expand on this possible clue: 1. In Device Manager, I seem to have 6 IDE entires - which is odd for 2 cables each with 2 connectors! I...
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    A8N-SLI Deluxe: XP can't see 2nd SATA drive

    Oh - I am used to seeing the drive listed in Disk Management and then being able to partition/format it as required. This drive isn't listed in Disk Management at all - the original drive is, and so is the DVD on the IDE, and so is my USB key-drive if it happens to be in use. Is there is a...
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    A8N-SLI Deluxe: XP can't see 2nd SATA drive

    I have an A8N-SLI Deluxe running XP/SP2 quite happily on a single SATA drive on NV SATA #1 (i.e.black port, bottom right). I am just trying to add a second drive, no RAID, on one of the other SATA connections. 1. Both drives are now seen, and correctly identified in the BIOS 2. All 4 SATA...