Sata HD Problem

[ikickpigeons]

Soi just instaled my new sata drive. Its a seagate 250 gb sata150. I already have a WD 80 gb sata and my os is running off of it. So i installed it and booted my computer. BIOS is recognizing it, and my xp did. But nothing happened. It said it found new hardware, but didnt show up under my computer. SO what do i need to do? I posted a question about this earlier before i got the drive, and people just said to plug it in and it will work fine as a staorage devce. Im not trying to run raid or anything. I just want a place where i can put my movies and music and photos. Do i need to pop my xp disc in? Or is it something i can do within xp itself? Thanks inadvance for the replies, and i know this is a stupid question, but i dont know where to turn to.

 

[Bozo Galora]

so, throw in your new seagate drive install CD and boot to it. and format and partition the thing
You gave NO INFO on your mobo and WHICH SATA port # or controller you are putting the new drive on
If its on dif controller, you need drivers for that
On certain mobo, you need to add SATA in certain order on certain ports

Edit: and you must make sure your bios has been enabled for the drive's SATA port.

 

[ikickpigeons]

i dont have a driver for it. I dont know what port its on, My mobo has four so i plugged it into the one next to my other drive.

Specs:
AMD 3500
MSI K8N Neo 2 Plat
6800 Ultra
WD 80gb
1 gb of corsair ram

 

[WebDude]

Try this:
Control Panel, Administrative tools, computer management, disk management. It should show up there as an unformated hd. From there you can format it, give it a drive letter, and it should then show up in windows explorer as another hd. Then you can dump your files on it.

 

[yomafire]

Hey Webdude,

Thats what I did,using disk management but after a long time windows crashes and no format progress occurs...but the disk is trying to do somthing.

Any thought?

 

[ikickpigeons]

thanks webdude its working. ill still be able to instal programs and games onto this drive right?

 

[WebDude]

Yeah, it should be just a normal drive now that it's formatted. (I guees you maybe created a partition on it too -- I think you have to that before you format it.)

yomafire -- Not sure what's going on in your situation. You should be able to manage any attached hd from within XP. That your windows crashes is baffling. I would try to format the drive using the XP CD. Just disconnect the main drive, connect the one you want to format, and make like your going to install windows. Format the disk, then exit the XP install routine. That's about all I can suggest.

 

[ikickpigeons]

will i be able to install programs in this drive?

 

[ikickpigeons]

why is it that my drive shows up only as a 232 gb drive when it is actually 250? what happened to 20 gigs?

 

[wanderer27]

Originally posted by: yomafire
Hey Webdude,

Thats what I did,using disk management but after a long time windows crashes and no format progress occurs...but the disk is trying to do somthing.

Any thought?

Which SATA ports are you using (you have two sets) ?

Are the SATA ports enabled in BIOS ?

 

[imported_rod]

The drive can store 250,000,000,000 bytes. But windows says one GB is 1024*1024*1024 = 1,073,741,824 bytes.

250,000,000,000 / 1,073,741,824 = 232.83 GB

RoD

 

[ikickpigeons]

i see. That also explains why my 80 gig is actually like a 76 or something. Thanks rod

 

[yomafire]

Well I think its the hard drive itself....I m gonna try to do low level format if I can get software for that and then its oging to garbage....no mor eMAXTOR ever!