I have a Aesus A7S8X-MX motherboard and am now running two IDE/ATA hard drives. I've added a SATA drive (MAXTOR STM3250310AS) which I believe is blank..XP recognises the drive is there and says it is working properly but I can't see it in Explorer (should be F:) to format it. In Device Manager is has no location. BIOS is showing it as either Primary or Secondary SATA (I've tried it in both slots).
The Maxtor is SATA 2. The cable from Maplin was said to be suitable for SATA 1 and 2.
I've tired all the usual Troubleshoot Help for SCSI .
I have an XP installation disk but it's not the orginal one for the PC...
Any ideas?
Alex
2007-09-09 02:49:20 · 2 answers · asked by alexgrattan01 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Richt click "my Computer"
select MANAGE
Choose LOCAL DISK MANAGEMENET
Locate new disk in lower window
Right click, create a partition and FORMAT it
2007-09-09 02:53:31 · answer #1 · answered by stu_the_kilted_scot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
right! first of all you need to remove the jumper on the harddrive to make it a slave after you may need to format it by going to admin tools in the control panel then disk management.
Good luck!
2007-09-09 10:12:46 · answer #2 · answered by j-kiko.co.uk 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋