I have 2 SATA hard drives. I had the first one for about a year then added the second. Whats strange is that the second drive is not being seen by BIOS. The only way I could get windows to see it was to install windows onto the 2nd drive.
I have a ASUS M2N32 sli-deluxe MOBO which has 6 sata ports labelled 1 - 6. The first drive is connected to port 1. I tried connecting the 2nd drive to ports 2 and 3 and it is still not recognised by BIOS. I want to use both drives independantly for different things (one drive for programs, one for movies and music) Does this mean I dont need to bother with RAID? I also have an unknown device in my device manager under Other devices, PCI device. Are these related? Could this be what has been slowing my computer?
2007-07-02 08:12:58 · 3 answers · asked by bruvvamoff 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
MSB arts doesn't have a SATA raid drive other wise he would have known they weren't any jumpers on the drive. These harddrives are controled by light and nothing elce when setting up these devices you need to make sure that your orange data cable isn't touching the other cable and it as to be as stright as possible with a decent curve so that the the light going through the cable doesn't bounce off into the computer which seems the case to me as windows ain't seeing it. Try reinstalling the cable.
2007-07-04 03:46:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
did you look for the drive in device manager? did you format and set a partition on the new sata drive? (sata drives do not have master/slave settings its done by ports)
Have you: Start>"[right click] my computer">manage>storage>disk management. If the drive is listed, ensure it indicates "healthy" ,"active". If not, (probably will because you installed a partition on it when you installed WinXP) go ahead and format and partition it without an OS from this console. This will make it a data storage drive and usually indicate active.
2007-07-02 21:14:06 · answer #2 · answered by Ntothat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
May be both of your hard drive are in Master boot setting, check the jumper setting at the back of HDD, and make one of them to slave or may be remove the jumper at all and then plug it again... May be it'll be help you!
2007-07-02 15:28:38 · answer #3 · answered by MSB Arts 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋