Installed a Hitachis deskstar 500GB sata, where is it?

[Kruppe]

Put it in-gave it power, connected it with the sata cable. It doesn't show up anywhere.


Previously I had a raid 0 on the 2 sata connectors. I think that might mess up the detection of the new drive. But I dont know how to fix it

 

[D3kTrix]

Did you initialize and format it yet?

If not:
Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management

You should then see the drive listed there if it is working.
You have to initialize and format a new HDD before it will show up in the normal windows environment.

 

[Kruppe]

Its not listed only my old IDE drive with windows on it and 2 DVD drives, 1 of which doesn't exist

 

[Kruppe]

there has to be some kind of "procedure" to install a hard drive and making it work. Should it really be necessary to screw around this much to make a simple thing work? Sometimes PCs really makes my blood boil.

 

[D3kTrix]

If you followed the steps I explained above and the drive is not listed in that window then the drive is not working.

Its either not hooked up right or dead.
Is it new or used?

 

[Kruppe]

brand new.

I have a message during startup about some raid driver/controller thingy. I press F4 to enter that configuration thingy and I see the drive on the list. The only option in there that is usefull is "low level format" I choose that option and nothing more happens, I even left the computer on for over 1 hour.

 

[D3kTrix]

Disable RAID in BIOS for the controller that the drive is on.

Your obviously not using RAID for this single drive setup, and the controller is probably trying to make an array with it. Which is why windows can't detect it as a normal drive.

 

[robisbell]

get into the BIOS, and check to see if it's identified there, to get into your BIOS is probably the DEL key.

 

[oynaz]

Download and run Hitachi's diagnostic tools from their website.

 

[Kruppe]

I ran Hitachis tool. The disk is there and everything seems ok.

What I think I need is to completely remove the Raid driver thingy that shows up during startup. Any idea how I do that?

 

[corkyg]

Some motherboards do not separate SATA and RAID. Mine are that way. So, if I use the mobo's SATA port, the drive must be RAIDed. It results in a single RAID 0 drive.

I finally got tired of that nonsense and installed a PCI SATA card with 4 ports - and they can be independent. Life is much better that way.

So, you may have to put that new drive in a RAID array to get it "seen."

What is your mobo?

 

[robisbell]

did yuo even try the raid utility that comes up at post to make sure it's seen and initialize it? did you also check the BIOS before hand to verfy it's even seeing it?

 

[Kruppe]

the bios does not see it.

The Raid start up sees it, and I can enter the raid setup. In there I have some options including creating raid, removing raid and so forth, none of them works. The only thing it will let me do is a "low level format" og the 500G drive, when I try that nothing happens.

I downloaded some sata drivers from my motherboard manufacturer. I am supposed to install these during XP installation. Actually I would like to do that and make a fresh installation on the new drive (if it works). But I need a floppy drive to install those drivers. This is Freaking unbelievable in this day and age!!

 

[Nocturnal]

Perhaps you don't have the RAID controller drivers installed and therefore it isn't recognizing the drive within Windows. If you go to device manager by right clicking on My Computer, Properties, and then clicking on Hardware and then Devices, do you see any yellow exclamation marks?

 

[Kruppe]

actullay there was, I tried removing that because I thought I didnt need any raid stuff. ill try to find it again and get some drivers going

 

[Kruppe]

Installed the SATA drivers from the MB manufacturer and now the drive showed up in diskmanagement, I am formatting it now!

I wonder if I thne can install XP on it if I boot the XP CD-rom????

BTW thanks for all your assistance guys!

 

[robisbell]

you kept saying the it would not come up when the laptop was turned on, where did you install drivers to? you told us the bios did not even list the drive, so something you were not telling us or something.

 

[Kruppe]

maybe you are confusing me with the laptop harddrive thread.

My solution was to update drivers on the "raidcontroller" in the devicemanager. I actually thought I had to remoce that item because my new HD wasnt in a raid!

As to my BIOS, I never had the drive listed there..... afaik.

 

[oynaz]

If you need to do a reinstall of Windows with a SATA drive, download a CD-image of Windows XP with Service Pack 2 slipstreamed. This will save you a lot of trouble.