Trying to add a new hard drive - have problems

[ShaggyBrown]

I purchased an 120 GB ATA 100 Hard drive from seagate and I'm trying to install it in my ABIT NF7-S board.

I'm currently cold chilling with 2 hard drives on IDE 0 and a dvd burner and CD burner on IDE 1. I want to keep those there so my big idea is to hook up the seagate to to the Serial ATA using Abit's serallel connector or whatever they call it. It is basically an adaptor to put on the back of a regular IDE drive to hook it up to the Serial ATA port.

I hooked it all up. The drive is recognized at bootup, the screen that is displayed for the SATA Raid setup, but once I'm in windows the drive no longer appears. I'm wondering if the only way can use SATA is with two drivies in RAID 0 or RAID 1. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Shaggybrown

 

[InlineFive]

Do you have to install any special drivers for Serillial? Have you tried the drive on a regular IDE port?

 

[Bovinicus]

When you say the drive no longer appears, are you referring to Windows Explorer or device manager?

If you are referring to Windows Explorer, then you probably still haven't partitioned the drive.

If it isn't showing up in the device manager, then I suggest trying to get the latest drivers for the Serial ATA controller. Also, try getting the latest BIOS.

 

[StraightPipe]

if it is showing up in the device manager you need to go to:
control panel/administator tools/computer management then click on disk management on the left.

that should show any drives windows recognises. if it's there you should be able to assign a drive letter to the missing drive!

otherwise you probly need some drivers to get it working.(as noted above)

 

[ShaggyBrown]

Thanks guys. I forgot to partition and format the drive.



ShaggyBrown