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Sata Drives question WD1600JS

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Hippyefc

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Hello all

I have a raid system on my PC via the Jraid module which is fine, however I have a WD1600JS just sitting around so I thought I would connect it up etc...

I have it connected up and I can see it in my device manager under disk drives however I cannot see it in my computer as a drive.

I am running windows 7 64 bit, the jumpers on the drive are set to slave, I have changed the connection on my motherboard from sata 3 connection to sata 4 connection both show up in the bios and on the device manager.

SO why can I not use this device? I have my raid system and a external hardrive to back stuff, you know what its like saving family photos etc.
 
addition I have been into computer management section, under storage I can see my C: raid system and my I: external hard drive but no 3rd hard drive?
 
For the SATA drives, there should not be any jumper required, if there is a jumper there remove it.

what port is it connected to? if its connected to the ports that is controlled by the JRaid it may not show up as it will be only available to the raid
 
SATA drives should all be considered as Masters - no such thing as a SATA Slave. It must be an older SATA drive to even have jumper pins. Newer ones have no jumpers. Try it with Master or None.
 
Gents

You are correct it has not jumper pin on it and states one isn't required

The third drive is connected to Sata 3 on the motherboard (p5k) Sata 1 & 2 are the disc drives.

The other hard drives via the raid config are via and external port and another sata connection that is behind my graphics card and a solo port
 
Great! If it still does not show in Windows, go to Disk Management and make sure it has a unique drive letter assigned.
 
corkyg said:
Great! If it still does not show in Windows, go to Disk Management and make sure it has a unique drive letter assigned.
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This. If it shows up in the BIOS and Device Manager, the only thing left to do is format it and assign a drive letter.
 
mfenn said:
This. If it shows up in the BIOS and Device Manager, the only thing left to do is format it and assign a drive letter.
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It does show up in device manager and in the bios

However not in the storage management section so it does not have an assigned drive letter.

How do I format it as all the screens(device manager etc) do not give me the option, do I do it via the bios? I don't want loose my raid system

How Do I assign it a letter as when I try to map in the drive I cannot see it
 
You have to format it within Windows from the Disk Management dialog. Raw unformatted disks only appear in the bottom pane, so perhaps you need to scroll down a bit?
 
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