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Title: No-show SATA drive
Post by: Wmaker on August 10, 2011, 04:14:07 PM

Any quick advice on a SATA drive that shows on BIOS and on startup but is a no-show in Windows? The drive worked just fine on the rig I pulled it out from.

Any ideas?

Title: Re: No-show SATA drive
Post by: gpwurzel on August 10, 2011, 07:20:50 PM

Win7? If so, it wont show up until you've been into disk management and "added" it to the system.

Not quite a full on description, but got a headache and being lazy.

Wurz

Title: Re: No-show SATA drive
Post by: morfiend on August 10, 2011, 09:08:34 PM

  Wmaker,

 If your using XP it may need the sata drivers installed from a floppy or zipdrive. For whatever reason XP doesnt seem to "see" sata drives,my guess is it "see" IDE drives but needs the drivers for Sata.

  Or I'm way off and have no idea what I'm talking about.....  very likely!!    :o




    :salute

Title: Re: No-show SATA drive
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on August 11, 2011, 01:35:06 AM

Quote from: morfiend on August 10, 2011, 09:08:34 PM

  Wmaker,

 If your using XP it may need the sata drivers installed from a floppy or zipdrive. For whatever reason XP doesnt seem to "see" sata drives,my guess is it "see" IDE drives but needs the drivers for Sata.

  Or I'm way off and have no idea what I'm talking about.....  very likely!!    :o
    :salute

You're partly correct. XP setups which are older than SP2 do not contain sata-drivers and if you try installing using such a cd you will need to install sata drivers separately by pressing f6 during setup. Post SP2 versions handle sata just fine.

In Win7 as mentioned, the new drive may have to be initialized through drive management before it shows up. To do that click the windows 'orb' on the lower left corner, type diskmgmt.msc to the 'search' box and execute the snap-in that the search will find for you. That will open win7 disk management snap-in and the drive should be listed there. If not, shut down, reinsert cables to the drive (both motherboard and drive side) and try again. Some drives may need changing jumper positions i.e. if you use sata3 drive on a motherboard that only supports sata2.

Title: Re: No-show SATA drive
Post by: Wmaker on August 11, 2011, 09:57:25 AM

Thanks guys,

Sorry I didn't mention the OS, it's XP SP3. The Os drive obviously shows just fine and it's a SATA drive. I have an "enhanced mode" set from the BIOS which should show up to 6 SATA drives. Weird stuff,haven't run into this kind of problem before. Have to do some more checking.

Quote from: MrRiplEy[H] on August 11, 2011, 01:35:06 AM

Some drives may need changing jumper positions i.e. if you use sata3 drive on a motherboard that only supports sata2.

This is something I need to double check but from what it seemed, this wasn't necessary. Yeh, have to look again.

Title: Re: No-show SATA drive
Post by: Wmaker on August 11, 2011, 10:50:42 AM

Yay! Bizman called me and we got it sorted!

It was listed as dynamic HD and had to be "exported" via disk management. Works now!

Thank you Bizman!!  :aok