Ok so this is an older Abit IC-7G motherboard I've got running (with latest bios) and I'm upgrading the storage a bit, but need some help.
Currently in the system I have the OS on an IDE drive (250Gb) and 2 other hard drives in SATA1 (500Gb) and SATA2 (1.5Tb) on the motherboard. I would like to add a new hard drive (2Tb) and possibly an SATA optical drive.
The motherbaord has 4 onboard SATA, but SATA3 and SATA4 are run through a separate controller than 1 and 2.
All my hard drives at this point are different sizes, so I'm not interested in running anything in RAID ... but I'm guessing I still have to install RAID and can set up the system in non-RAID arrangement, is that right?
I need help tweaking the settings cause when I tried enabling RAID in the bios and starting up the system with the new drive plugged in SATA3 it would freeze up on recognizing the new drive before getting to windows. And if I remember correctly, I tried just starting up with those same settings but without the hard drive in SATA3, it booted to windows but then didn't recognize my drives in SATA1 and 2.
Is anyone familiar with this motherboard or just have suggestions on what I might try to get this to work? Should I try to initialize and format the hard drive as an external drive first and then add it as an internal? that shouldn't matter right?
Let me know if you need any more info to help and thank you much in advance!
Currently in the system I have the OS on an IDE drive (250Gb) and 2 other hard drives in SATA1 (500Gb) and SATA2 (1.5Tb) on the motherboard. I would like to add a new hard drive (2Tb) and possibly an SATA optical drive.
The motherbaord has 4 onboard SATA, but SATA3 and SATA4 are run through a separate controller than 1 and 2.
All my hard drives at this point are different sizes, so I'm not interested in running anything in RAID ... but I'm guessing I still have to install RAID and can set up the system in non-RAID arrangement, is that right?
I need help tweaking the settings cause when I tried enabling RAID in the bios and starting up the system with the new drive plugged in SATA3 it would freeze up on recognizing the new drive before getting to windows. And if I remember correctly, I tried just starting up with those same settings but without the hard drive in SATA3, it booted to windows but then didn't recognize my drives in SATA1 and 2.
Is anyone familiar with this motherboard or just have suggestions on what I might try to get this to work? Should I try to initialize and format the hard drive as an external drive first and then add it as an internal? that shouldn't matter right?
Let me know if you need any more info to help and thank you much in advance!
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