Windows wont detect my hd, even in disk management

[Davidh373]

this is a long one. I'll start with a summary of everything i've done/ tried to get this working

equiptment- 1 150 gigabite velociraptor (windows boot), and 2 1 terabyte wd cavier blacks

1.I got the Idea that I wanted to dual boot windows with os x86

2. I decided to format one of the cavier blacks in os x extended (journaled), and use the other to share between the 2 (fat 32 mbr)

3.I had no success installing on one of the drives so it would boot properly, so I decided to format both in fat 32 mbr.

4. I boot windows after wiping both drives and formating them in os x as fat 32 mbr and no drives detected

5. I scan many forums looking for an answer and I don't find a single person having the same issue, or an answer to my post

6. I call wd and they say to send the drives in to get them rma'd

7. here's where things get really nuts. I get the new drives, install them (fresh from the box, no formatting or anything), and they are still no shows. BIOS even sees the drives.

8. I dl all the drivers for my chipset (evga i7 x58) and no success

I would be very thankful to anyone who can help me, I have been at this for weeks now. I'm sorry if I seemed a little direct but I have been without the drives for a long while now and I need the storage for my school work in digital animation. the high def video is killing my storage on the other comps in the house right now and it only gets worse as time passes. thank you to all who read/ post

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

did you try to make the drives active? Maybe you can see the drives in some program or with your windows dvd

 

[Davidh373]

how do I make the drives "active"? do mean like going into disk management and formatting them, or is there some other way? what program (that's vista compatible) should I use to burn an image as bootable?

 

[Nothinman]

If the BIOS sees them but Windows doesn't then it's a driver problem.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Originally posted by: Davidh373
how do I make the drives "active"? do mean like going into disk management and formatting them, or is there some other way? what program (that's vista compatible) should I use to burn an image as bootable?

Can you see the drives in disk management? If you can right click and there should be an option of making the drives active. Maybe using a live cd of ubuntu could do the trick

 

[Nothinman]

Marking a partition active doesn't do anything but set a single bit in the MBR and all that affects is the bootup process, not whether Windows sees it or not.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Marking a partition active doesn't do anything but set a single bit in the MBR and all that affects is the bootup process, not whether Windows sees it or not.

My solid state drive was recognized in bios but not in windows. I had a program that was able to see my ssd and I made it active then my drive was seen in windows. Worked for me.

 

[Davidh373]

yeah, It's not showing up in disk management, do hard drives have drivers or is it the mobo?

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: Davidh373
yeah, It's not showing up in disk management, do hard drives have drivers or is it the mobo?

Hard drive controllers have drivers in Windows. Your motherboard has the ICH10R controller, and it may have a JMicron JMB363 and a JMicron JMB352 controller. The appropriate driver must be installed in Windows for whatever drive controller your drive(s) are hooked to.

Also, many hard drive controllers have settings in their BIOS that put them into different modes (i.e. IDE compatibility mode, AHCI mode, RAID mode). The driver loaded into Windows must match the mode the controller is set to. If the controller is set to IDE compatibility mode, Windows will use its built-in IDE drivers. Windows may or may not have built-in drivers for other controllers or other modes.

 

[Davidh373]

thank you, I will check the drivers tomorrow

 

[gpusavat]

Hi

I have two SATA Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 80Gb drives which I had been using as a pair RAID 0 drives. I have removed them and installed in a DELL Optiplex 755 PC and tried to install WINDOWS XP3 The PC did not detect the drive What's up? I know it is working. Installing it as an extended drive on another PC, WINDOWS XP3 recognised it. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[Davidh373]

sorry guys, I haven't gotten a chance to check out whats up because my power has been out for a few days, it's back up now though

 

[Davidh373]

ok, so I just tried to install raid drivers for my chipset, all it is is a bunch of random files. no .exe file or anything. Do I have to burn it as bootable and then install it through windows setup? Also, i've tried to dl the intel raid management driver (from evga for the x58 sli chipset which I have) and it says "this system does not meet minimum system requirements, setup will now exit". What do I do to bypass this?

 

[Davidh373]

I don't know if you have solved your problem yet but I may know how to fix it. The drive is either in the wrong format, or you should unraid them in the old computer, then transfer them into the new one. You format hds by right clicking my computer and entering the disk management section