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Help with SATA Hard Drive (Raptor) - FIXED!

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waazzuup

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I just got a raptor 36gig sata hard drive. I already had windows xp and all of my other stuff on a 7200rpm seagate Hard Drive. How do I get the computer to recognize the raptor?

My motherboard is an Abit NF7-S. I put the raptor in my computer. I attached the Lagacy power and serial data cables. Then I booted up off of my other hard drive and installed the SATA driver from my motherboard cd. I restarted and still nothing is showing up under my computer. Am I missing something?

I want to eventually install windows xp on the raptor and have that be my main hard drive. I tried loading windows xp, but when it gets to the part where you are supposed to hit F6, I hit F6 and nothing happens. This makes me think that the hard drive isn't connected right or something. I appreciate all help. Thanks

FIXED! - Thanks for the help!
 
Your motherboard's SATA is provided by a soldered-down Silicon Image SATA controller. You'll want to enter its own dedicated BIOS by pressing the F4 key or Ctrl S while it's detecting drives, then define your new SATA drive as an array, then save & exit. This gives the Silicon Image controller something to show Windows, and you may now find the new drive listed in My Computer (otherwise, go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management, and in Computer Management go into Storage > Disk Management, right-click the drive and give it a partitioning/formatting/letter assignment).
 
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Your motherboard's SATA is provided by a soldered-down Silicon Image SATA controller. You'll want to enter its own dedicated BIOS by pressing the F4 key or Ctrl S while it's detecting drives, then define your new SATA drive as an array, then save & exit. This gives the Silicon Image controller something to show Windows, and you may now find the new drive listed in My Computer (otherwise, go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management, and in Computer Management go into Storage > Disk Management, right-click the drive and give it a partitioning/formatting/letter assignment).
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Ok, I will try that.


It's not appearing under disc management right now. Thanks for the help
 
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