P4C800-E: XP doesn't see IDE drives on Promise or Intel controller

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Doug Montgomery

I am having trouble getting XP to see IDE drives on my new P4C800-e
system.

The basic configuration I have is:

2nd IDE Master: HP DVD 300i
3rd IDE Master (SATA): WD2500 (OS Disk with WinXP Pro)

I am trying to hook up two IDE WD1200 hard drives.

I have tried them on the Primary IDE channel and the Promise
controller (both in IDE mode and RAID). In all circumstances, the
BIOS seems to see the drives,
but WinXP does not show them in the file explorer. They are visible
under the
divice manager though. How do I make these drives visible to XP?

The details.

I have hooked both WD1200's to the primary IDE channel as both
master/slave and cable select.

I have hooked both WD1200's to the Promise port using the IDE drivers
(both M/S and CS) and the RAID drivers. I switched the mode of the
Promise controller in the BIOS appropriately. I am using the latest
BIOS, promise IDE and Promise RAID controllers form the ASUS site.

At boot time, the Promise BIOS sees both drives (in both RAID and IDE
modes),
but they never appear in WinXP (other than the divice manager).

What am I doing wrong? I feel it must be something simple, but I
can't
figure it out at the moment.

Thanks for any help...
dougm
 
Doug Montgomery said:
I am having trouble getting XP to see IDE drives on my new P4C800-e
system.
In all circumstances, the
BIOS seems to see the drives,
but WinXP does not show them in the file explorer. They are visible
under the
divice manager though. How do I make these drives visible to XP?

Thanks for any help...
dougm
Click to expand...

Try Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management
Under 'Storage' Go to 'Disk Management'

My first guess, they arent formatted, so currently there isnt a file system
to view.
Try formatting them NTFS and see.

HTH
Philip
 
Doug Montgomery said:
At boot time, the Promise BIOS sees both drives (in both RAID and IDE
modes), but they never appear in WinXP (other than the divice manager).

What am I doing wrong? I feel it must be something simple, but I
can't figure it out at the moment.
Click to expand...

Perhaps you have Tweak UI installed and used it to stealth the drive letters that weren't previously used.

Tony.

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from the said:
I am having trouble getting XP to see IDE drives on my new P4C800-e
system.

The basic configuration I have is:

2nd IDE Master: HP DVD 300i
3rd IDE Master (SATA): WD2500 (OS Disk with WinXP Pro)

I am trying to hook up two IDE WD1200 hard drives.

I have tried them on the Primary IDE channel and the Promise
controller (both in IDE mode and RAID). In all circumstances, the
BIOS seems to see the drives,
but WinXP does not show them in the file explorer. They are visible
under the
divice manager though. How do I make these drives visible to XP?
Click to expand...
<snip>

Explorer won't show them until they are formatted and assigned drive
letters. Start, run, diskmgmt.msc (or you can get there from 'my
computer, r-click, manage, disk management).
 
OK, I feel pretty foolish about not figuring that out, but now I have
another question.

I used the promise boot time configuration utility to configure the
two drives
for mirroring. But when I go into disk management and format the
drives, the only options I am given are for striped, etc, but not
mirrored?

How does one use the promise configuration utility in conjunction with
the winxp
disk management to end up with mirrored drives.

thanks for the previous response
dougm
 
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