New SATA drive problem

[marklindley]

Hi

Have just installed a new Maxtor 300gb drive, on a serial ATA
controller card (Silicon Image). The install went well without any
errors, device manager see's both the controller and the disk.

My problem is that i can't seem to use this drive, it's nowhere to be
found.

My Mobo even see's it at BIOS level and gives me the option to boot
from it. I'm using XP Pro with the opp system on a IDE drive and then
the new SATA as a salve.

Any Ideas

Oakey

 

[Conor]

Hi

Have just installed a new Maxtor 300gb drive, on a serial ATA
controller card (Silicon Image). The install went well without any
errors, device manager see's both the controller and the disk.

My problem is that i can't seem to use this drive, it's nowhere to be
found.

My Mobo even see's it at BIOS level and gives me the option to boot
from it. I'm using XP Pro with the opp system on a IDE drive and then
the new SATA as a salve.

Any Ideas

You HAVE partitioned it, formatted it and assigned it a drive letter in
Disk Management?

What version of XP Pro? It's either SP1 or SP2 you need to use as older
versions don't support 48bit LBA.


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[JAD]

um you did partition and format right?...your saying the OS doesn't see it?

 

[Simian Dyson]

Hi

Have just installed a new Maxtor 300gb drive, on a serial ATA
controller card (Silicon Image). The install went well without any
errors, device manager see's both the controller and the disk.

My problem is that i can't seem to use this drive, it's nowhere to be
found.

My Mobo even see's it at BIOS level and gives me the option to boot
from it. I'm using XP Pro with the opp system on a IDE drive and then
the new SATA as a salve.

Any Ideas

Oakey

It should show up both in device mgr. and disk mgmt. If so, you just need to
format it and give it a drive letter.