HDD Help...

[potato28]

I just installed a 160 gigabyte 7200.9 into my nVidia SATA ports, but it isnt being reconized...

 

[Luckyboy1]

What I'm about to say may not be true in your mommabord's case...

With the mommaboard's I've used with SATA, they only recognize the SATA drives if used as your C: drive.

 

[RaiderJ]

What is a mommabord? Sounds like a Swedish jetski.

 

[Luckyboy1]

Originally posted by: RaiderJ
What is a mommabord? Sounds like a Swedish jetski.

It's the thing that's married to your poppaboard! Is that a sufficient answer? Now. let's try and actually like, answer this guy's question... fool!

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: potato28
I just installed a 160 gigabyte 7200.9 into my nVidia SATA ports, but it isnt being reconized... Id like to eventually set RAID 0, but I first need to find the drive... thanks...

Does it show up in the BIOS? If not, check all the cables, and make sure you didn't disable the SATA controller or set it to RAID mode.

Does it show up in Disk Management (right-click My Computer and choose "Manage...", then select "Disk Management")? If so, format the drive and then you'll be able to use it. 😛

 

[potato28]

Its not showing up in BIOS or in Windows... cables are plugged in... Im gonna restart and try to get Windows to reconize it again...

 

[potato28]

K Im outta ideas... any1 else got something...?

 

[Madwand1]

There are probably a few different ways to disable/enable them via BIOS -- enable the SATA controller, enable RAID on the MB, enable RAID for the drive. Once you have that working, you should be able to see RAID options during booting; you can go ahead and configure the drives in this. You'll then need to install the NVidia drivers if you haven't already done so in Windows to get the RAID array recognized (as a drive). Then you'll need to initialize / partition / format the array in Windows Disk Management to use it as a drive.

 

[potato28]

All those steps are done... I just want to get Windows to reconize the second HDD!