SATA drive not recognised

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Andrew

Hi,

I've just built my new PC, which has a 40GB maxtor drive as master, with W2K
Pro loaded, in the primary IDE slot.

I also have a 120GB Maxtor 6Y120M0 SATA drive, which is connected to the
motherboard, which I am using as additional storage. I have run the maxblast
utility provided by Maxtor which recognises the drive, I set it as
additional storage, and the utiltiy claimed to have successfuly formatted
the drive in preparation for use.

However, when I log in to Windows the SATA drive is not showing in explorer.
The Maxtor website states that if this happens you should right click on "my
computer", go to "Manage" , then to the disk management folder, however my
SATA drive is not showing in here.

So basically, on start up my PC can see and format the drive, but in a
windows environment it just doesn't seem to be there at all.

Can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks

Andrew
 
Andrew said:
Hi,

I've just built my new PC, which has a 40GB maxtor drive as master, with W2K
Pro loaded, in the primary IDE slot.

I also have a 120GB Maxtor 6Y120M0 SATA drive, which is connected to the
motherboard, which I am using as additional storage. I have run the maxblast
utility provided by Maxtor which recognises the drive, I set it as
additional storage, and the utiltiy claimed to have successfuly formatted
the drive in preparation for use.

However, when I log in to Windows the SATA drive is not showing in explorer.
The Maxtor website states that if this happens you should right click on "my
computer", go to "Manage" , then to the disk management folder, however my
SATA drive is not showing in here.

So basically, on start up my PC can see and format the drive, but in a
windows environment it just doesn't seem to be there at all.

Can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks

Andrew
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I think you need to install the SATA drivers.

Andy
 
You may also need to check your BIOS settings.

In my case the SATA drives are classed as 'Add In Cards', the ATA
Drives being on IDE 1 are the Primary Drives while the DVD\CD-RW
Drives are on IDE 2 as Secondary Drives. There is a section in the
BIOS to choose the Boot Drive and in this case it is the Add In Card.

I know this sound odd having a Primary Drive which is in effect NOT
the first drive, but that is legacy dialogue at it's worst.

Hope this helps, best regards,

StanTheMan
 
You need to install the SATA drivers. They should have been included with
your motherboard on a floppy, or on the motherboard installation CD. On
some motherboards you will have to identify in the BIOS whether you are
setting up a RAID or BASE SATA setup. You would chose BASE.
Personally, I would use the faster SATA drive as the Operating System drive
and programs drive, and use the IDE drive for storage.

Fitz
 
Fitz said:
You need to install the SATA drivers. They should have been included with
your motherboard on a floppy, or on the motherboard installation CD. On
some motherboards you will have to identify in the BIOS whether you are
setting up a RAID or BASE SATA setup. You would chose BASE.
Personally, I would use the faster SATA drive as the Operating System drive
and programs drive, and use the IDE drive for storage.
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Also, have a set of Partition Magic boot floppies handy. You will have to
mark the SATA drive as "active" and "bootable".

BTW, SATA is no faster -- the disk spins at the same number of RPM as its
EIDE twin. Bits come off the disk at the same rate regardless of what
connection scheme is used.
 
W2K Pro was designed before SATA drives and doesn't know about them. You
have to load a W2K driver for it to see it. Possibly in a Service Pack.
 
I was thinking of my drives, which are 2 X Raptors (10,000 RPM in a RAID 0
config), which are somewhat faster.

Fitz
 
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