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how to format sata in dos?

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lolper

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i have 3 hd drives 2 ide one sata i unplugged both ide go into dos but i cant find the sata drive how can i format it?
 
So you booted to DOS running just 1 hard drive (the SATA) and you can't find the hard drive you just booted from? Try explaining yourself better. Punctuation and capitalization help too.
 
Go into the system BIOS or SATA controller BIOS and set the controller to Non-RAID mode. If your controller is integrated in the mobo's chipset (and maybe even if it's in a separate ship), you should then be able to partition and format it. DOS can't see a drive that is not partitioned and formatted, but the partitioning program (FDISK) should see the drive as long as it's in non-RAID mode. And remember that DOS generally can't handle large drives. Try booting from a Knoppix live CD or the Ultimate Boot CD for DOS - those have tools for partitioning large drives. But still if you plan to boot into RAW DOS, you will still need to make 32GB or smaller FAT-32 partitions or logical drives as generally DOS can't see larger. Though a utility is available that will let DOS see large NTFS partitions. Most drive mfr's also have partitioning software you can download from their web sites.

.bh.
 
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