What I want is to use one for programs and applications and one for storage. Do I have to install windows on both drives? I have already and they are both in my computer but on bootup only one is recognised on BIOS.
2007-04-02 20:00:19 · 8 answers · asked by bruvvamoff 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Check your cables again. Also check the jumper settings on the new drive. If you have some kind of a RAID controler you may need to initialize the drive. You will NOT have to install windows a second time.
Note: if you can plug in the SATA power, DO NOT plug in the white molex cable too.
2007-04-02 20:07:19 · answer #1 · answered by b 1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im not real sure how to go about this. I do know that you do not need an Operating System on both drives. When it comes to SATA, you usually have to install the drivers during Windows setup so that it sees it. If you are using one as a secondary storage device, Windows should recognize it, but it also could depend on the BIOS. This is a good question, Im anxious to see other answers.
Try removing the one drive that is recognized and install the other drive in its place, just to see if the BIOS recognizes it.
2007-04-02 20:08:31 · answer #2 · answered by Mike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The SATA cables are very sensitive, its easy to bend a pin on one causing the appearance of a bad drive (or drive not showing up in BIOS or windows)....I have gone through a couple cables myself....
Also, who makes your drive? Most of them offer software to format the drive.....
Contact me on yahoo messenger, I may be able to help troubleshoot more in the bios.....
Update: you dont need a RAID controller to use the disk for additional storage, windows will recognize an SATA drive with no additional drivers.....it just wont recognize a RAID array....
2007-04-02 20:10:24 · answer #3 · answered by Vincent 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you've got the same as mine then one of your drives needs to be master and the one you're using for storage as slave. Can you set this on the jumper settings on the drives?
I agree you should set the Bios disk settings to 'Auto' to begin with.
You don't need to install an operating system on both drives, but it shouldn't interfere with what you're doing once you've got the master/slave right. Alternatively, look for a second disk socket on the motherboard to use for the storage disk.
2007-04-02 20:20:30 · answer #4 · answered by Tertia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you did was you make it as dual boot. Meaning you can login in any of windows intall. What you should do is just intall both drive and install only the OS on the first drive, in that case you can just make the other as storage. If you install indentical OS then just format the other one and make it as your storage.
2007-04-02 20:06:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO pretty with the right-rated manufacturers the computing gadget optimal probably already has the drivers for the stressfulpersistent. on the time I equipped it I had a constrained quantity of money so I have 4 annoying drives in a million computing gadget 3 of them are different manufacturers. Toshiba, Seagate, and Western digital multi function million computing gadget.
2016-12-03 04:37:49 · answer #6 · answered by headlee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right click my computer
go to Manager
have a look in disk manager
See if you can see both harddrive. Should show both even if raid in insalled unless hardware.
Format one drive.
for detailed information use the help in microsoft. It is very good.
2007-04-03 01:45:12 · answer #7 · answered by idoaik 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
UNPLUG YOUR MAIN HDD. PLUG IN YOUR SECONDARY HDD. TURN ON YOUR PC YOUR COMPUTER SHOULD RECOGNIZE THE DRIVE, IF IT DOES NOT GO INTO YOU MOTHERBOARDS BIOS AND SEARCH FOR IDE CHANNELS, THE VALUES NEED TO BE SET TO AUTO.
THEN INSTALL WINDOWS
THEN PLUG IN YOU OTHER HDD.
2007-04-02 20:15:39 · answer #8 · answered by Ubuntu-Beryl Master 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋