Adding a third SATA Drive

[Jack125]

I presently have two raptor SATA drives set up in Raid 0 an want to set up a third SATA drive as a non-Raid backup drive. My PC is not recognizing the new drive. What do I need to check and change to get it to work?

 

[airfoil]

Does your mobo support more than 2 SATA drives? Assuming it supports 4, you may not have enabled the controller for the 2nd set of SATA drives in the BIOS - I'd start by ensuring these are enabled.

 

[Jack125]

I've got an ASUS a8n-sli mobo and both controllers are enabled.

 

[airfoil]

Alright, do you see the drive detected & displayed during th boot up sequence? Check the power connection to that drive and try to figure out if it is spooling up.

 

[Jack125]

I see the drive whn booting up

 

[airfoil]

Oh boy...

You'll want to read this post.

 

[ribbon13]

I needs to be partitioned and formatted.

 

[Jack125]

Thanks fellas - drive is now recognized, formatted and a backup copied successfully to it.

 

[Jack125]

Thanks fellas - Drive is now recognized, formatted and a backup made onto it successfully.