SATA Raid 0 on a KV8-MAX3 not showing as a drive in XP?

[churchwa]

I have just built a system with 2 x Maxtor 160gig drives in a raid 0 array. The drives are connected to SATA3 and 4 on the onboard raid sata controller. The array shows up in the controller bios and also in device manager in windows. All the raid utils that i got with the MB show the raid as being setup, but windows will not show it as a drive. Any help would be greatly accepted.

P.S. I have tried installing new drivers

 

[chocoruacal]

Originally posted by: churchwa
I have just built a system with 2 x Maxtor 160gig drives in a raid 0 array. The drives are connected to SATA3 and 4 on the onboard raid sata controller. The array shows up in the controller bios and also in device manager in windows. All the raid utils that i got with the MB show the raid as being setup, but windows will not show it as a drive. Any help would be greatly accepted.

P.S. I have tried installing new drivers

start-->settings-->control panel-->administrative tools-->computer management-->disk management

See if it shows up there.

 

[Markfw]

You have to create a partition on it first, then format the partition.........

 

[destaccado]

best bet is to take the sata drivers off the motherboard cd (or better yet floppy if they gave you one), put them on a floppy, and then reinstall windows with the cd....when you get the first screen up (from boot from cd using winxp cd) near the bottom of the screen it will say "press f6 to install third party drivers or something similiar"......it will load up some things and then go to a screen asking where to look for the driver, put the floppy in and it will show you drivers on the floppy....select the sata driver (probably the only one if you used a new or blank floppy) and it will say "windows will now load support for xxx".....you may now do a quick format on your raid0 setup and create a partition, finish installing windows and you should be good to go........

 

[Moonbeam]

start-->settings-->control panel-->administrative tools-->computer management-->disk management

If it does you can partition and formate there, I think. I just did that with a USB external drive. Took a bit to figure out. Right click on the window with that drive. Make sure you don't format the wrong drive if you have others.