Hard Drive Problem

[tofumonster]

I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250820AS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive and when i access BIOS, there is a drive under an SATA slot (which put in a slave connector). However, once I boot up my system, the HDD isn't recognized in 'My Computers'. The boot (master) HDD is recognized, but not my slave drive. Heck, does slave and master drives have anything to do with this at all?

Please help!

This is my first build by the way.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Ok calm down and lets go through this. The seagate, you can't see this drive in windows right? If so then you must first mount it in the os. To do this push start/programs/administrative tools/computer management. Once you launch it scroll down the menu until you get to disk management and highlight it. On the right side of your screen you will see all drives hooked to your system. If the new drive is unformatted and unmounted it will appear greyed out in the menu. Right click on this drive and select format. Follow the on screen prompts and when it is done your drive will be formated and recognized by windows. I would suggest formatting it in ntfs default.

 

[tofumonster]

wait...i don't have "administrative tools" in my "all programs" tab...

 

[tofumonster]

actually. never mind. I got to the Computer Management part. I see both my primary drive AND the one that isn't formatted yet, but i can't format it...in the upper main box i only see a C:/ drive. and in the bottom of the box, i see an "unallocated" disk, which when i right click, there's no option to "format" the disk.

 

[myocardia]

You do realize that you can't use a PATA (IDE, in other words) as your boot drive, then add an SATA drive, don't you? If you have an SATA drive in the system, it needs to be the boot drive.

 

[tofumonster]

yeah..i have all SATA's in my system. I am currently formatting my second drive...my only last question is what is a "basic" disk versus a "dynamic" disk? And it also says that this D: drive will be "basic" while my C: is "partitioned"

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: myocardia
You do realize that you can't use a PATA (IDE, in other words) as your boot drive, then add an SATA drive, don't you? If you have an SATA drive in the system, it needs to be the boot drive.

That's not true. You can set the boot order on any modern BIOS. All he needs to do is set it so:

1. The PATA drive boots first.
2. The SATA drive boots second.
3. DVD/optical drivers and anything else boot afterward.

OP: You simply need to partition and forat the drive. You couldn't format it because it hasn't been partitinned yet. Go back into your computer management and try again, but partition first.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: myocardia
You do realize that you can't use a PATA (IDE, in other words) as your boot drive, then add an SATA drive, don't you? If you have an SATA drive in the system, it needs to be the boot drive.

Not true at all. It depends on the BIOS defaults.

On an NF4 rig, the PATA are defaulted before the SATA, actually.

I think the BIOS defaults for an i865PE rig are similar.