250GB SATA NOT RECOGNISED

[Guest]

Hi guys, I have two SATA drives on my brand new pc. One is Western Digital
80G and the other is a Seagate 250G. Now my computer recognises both drives
under disk drives in device manager and there is no yellow warning sign next
to it. However in my computer it only shows the 80G drive as C: and the 250G
is missing. Please help me as I am not to crash hot on these things.

 

[MCR]

Hi guys, I have two SATA drives on my brand new pc. One is Western Digital
80G and the other is a Seagate 250G. Now my computer recognises both drives
under disk drives in device manager and there is no yellow warning sign next
to it. However in my computer it only shows the 80G drive as C: and the 250G
is missing. Please help me as I am not to crash hot on these things.

Have you gone into disk management and formatted the drive and assigned
a drive letter?

OK, try it

Start>Control Panel>Administrative tools
Click on Computer management, now on the left hand side is disk
management. Click on that once and the disk drives should show on the
right. Format it and assign a drive letter.

Hope this helps

 

[Guest]

Thanks Brother, I have gone to Disk Management and there are two sections on
the Right a lower and upper part. The upper part shows my C: and all the
details but not the other drive and the lower part shows all my drives
including my 2 CD Rom drives. I right click on my 250G drive in the lower
part but it only allows me to view properties.

 

[MCR]

Thanks Brother, I have gone to Disk Management and there are two sections on
the Right a lower and upper part. The upper part shows my C: and all the
details but not the other drive and the lower part shows all my drives
including my 2 CD Rom drives. I right click on my 250G drive in the lower
part but it only allows me to view properties.

MMmmm.... Are you logged in with Administrator privileges? Is it only
the SATA drive that wont let you format? (I obviously dont want you to
format C: but can format be seen when you try it over C?

With my mobo which is a Asus board, I had to install SATARaid from the
CD-ROM to actually install it, did you have a similar utility?

 

[Guest]

Okay I am the only user on the pc (I don't log in). Also when I right click
on the C: the format option is there but it's not higlighted for me to select
it. I have an Asus P5AD2-E Deluxe M/Board and it came with a program called
ITE Raid manager. When I run the program it says No Devices.

 

[Guest]

Please guys I really need help

 

[MCR]

Okay I am the only user on the pc (I don't log in). Also when I right click
on the C: the format option is there but it's not higlighted for me to select
it. I have an Asus P5AD2-E Deluxe M/Board and it came with a program called
ITE Raid manager. When I run the program it says No Devices.

Something is funky, try logging in in safe mode and see if that helps or
logging in as admin (not your default account).

Something else to try is you did go in to the BIOS and set the device
correctly? on my board I have to hit F2 at a certain stage in the boot
process to setup SATA devices.

 

[Andy]

Please guys I really need help

On the left side of the lower right panel where is says Disk 2, does
it say Basic? If not, right click on it and select revert to Basic.
Is the capacity about 232 GB? If not, you have to install SP1 or SP2.