Seagate 300gb SATA not recognized...

[Icopoli]

Ok, so, here we go:

Formatted 20gb O/S drive which contained WinXP Pro SP2, at which point I now have that reinstalled and running.

Cannot get Windows to see my 300gb Seagate SATA drive in My Computer / Windows Explorer.

BIOS recognizes the drive, it's in the hard drive listing in the boot priorities and all that. Drive is recognized in Device Manager in Windows, it can see that it is indeed a 300gb Seagate drive with all the proper sectors etc etc.

Device Manager has no problems with the SiliconImage 3114 Controller, I've uninstalled + reinstalled it 3 times just to make sure. Now that I'm thinking about it though, the 3114 controller is for SCSI and RAID...not SATA...there should be a seperate SATA controller no?

I'm really out of ideas at this point, I've done this (formatting O/S drive and leaving data drive alone) like 10 times and never had a problem. Thanks in advance.

 

[oynaz]

Try Seagate's website. I believe they have a program which can fix those kind of things. I know Maxtor and Hitachi have.

 

[BadThad]

What does Windows Drive Manager say about the drive? Right click My Computer>Manage.

 

[mnviking]

I'm with BadThad. Go into disk manager and you should be prompted to go through the disk conversion wizard. That should let you create a partition and name it. It should show up in exlorer then.

 

[imported_Phil]

You haven't partitioned and formatted it.

 

[JSFLY]

Originally posted by: Phil
You haven't partitioned and formatted it.

bingo.

The way I do it is put in my windows xp cd, and use that to format the drive. Im sure theres a better way to do this however...