[resolved]New drive not recognized

Andy128 · 02-18-2007, 10:41 AM

Greetings-
I have re-installed Xp on my boss's computer. He had it set as a RAID 0- so I reformated the drive and in the BIOS set it to treat the drive as SATA/PATA.
All went well. Working great.

He bought another drive from Dell and when he hooked it up- it is not seen anywhere (my computer or disk management). Is this a simple case of having to install a jumper to make it a slave? The original two HD in the system did not have a jumper (due to being set up as RAID).

Andy

dai · 02-18-2007, 11:17 AM

is the new one an ide drive as there is no jumpers for master/slave on a sata drive they are done by which slot they are connected to on the m/board
if it is an ide put it on the end plug on a 80 wire cable set as master and check that you can see it in the bios,it the ide port is raid capable you will have to load the raid driver before the bios will see it and windows will not see it until the bios does
once it is seen by the bios go into disk management and format it,then you will see it in my computer

Andy128 · 02-18-2007, 11:32 AM

How would I load the RAID driver? Additionally- why the need for a RAID driver if I am not setting it up as RAID. I simply want it to see drive one and drive two. I thought I had effectively turned off RAID in the BIOS when I had it treat the main drive as SATA/PATA in stead of RAID.

I am new to this somewhat.

Thanks in advance.

Andy

dai · 02-18-2007, 11:41 AM

the reference to the raid driver was if it was an ide drive on a raid capable ide port
is the new drive ide or sata you have not said if it is sata check the cable is secure
if it is sata is it sata or sata2
if it is sata2 and the m/b is sata then you need a jumper on the drive limiting it to sata 150mg
if you do not know if the manual is available look in the listing at the front and see if it says sata or sata2 300mg capable

Sgt_Grim_Reaper · 02-18-2007, 12:06 PM

yeah, full specs are needed

Andy128 · 02-18-2007, 12:07 PM

dai-
Thanks for responding. I know it is a sata drive- just dont know if it is a
sata2. I will find out later tonight. Hope you'll be around to help troubleshoot.

Cheers-
Andy

dai · 02-18-2007, 12:17 PM

it's 5.30am here will be going offline soon but one of the others is sure to pick it up

Andy128 · 02-18-2007, 07:19 PM

dai-

It was as simple as turning that drive on in bios. Done. It is formatting now.
All should be fine.

Thanks again.

Andy

Sgt_Grim_Reaper · 02-18-2007, 07:46 PM

now I have heard everything.

dai · 02-19-2007, 08:01 AM

it's usually the simple things we tend to overlook

02-18-2007, 10:41 AM	#1 (permalink)
Andy128 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Michigan Posts: 380 OS: xp	[resolved]New drive not recognized Greetings- I have re-installed Xp on my boss's computer. He had it set as a RAID 0- so I reformated the drive and in the BIOS set it to treat the drive as SATA/PATA. All went well. Working great. He bought another drive from Dell and when he hooked it up- it is not seen anywhere (my computer or disk management). Is this a simple case of having to install a jumper to make it a slave? The original two HD in the system did not have a jumper (due to being set up as RAID). Andy

02-18-2007, 11:17 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 53,599 OS: vista 32x 64x ultimate retail	is the new one an ide drive as there is no jumpers for master/slave on a sata drive they are done by which slot they are connected to on the m/board if it is an ide put it on the end plug on a 80 wire cable set as master and check that you can see it in the bios,it the ide port is raid capable you will have to load the raid driver before the bios will see it and windows will not see it until the bios does once it is seen by the bios go into disk management and format it,then you will see it in my computer __________________

02-18-2007, 11:41 AM	#4 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 53,599 OS: vista 32x 64x ultimate retail	the reference to the raid driver was if it was an ide drive on a raid capable ide port is the new drive ide or sata you have not said if it is sata check the cable is secure if it is sata is it sata or sata2 if it is sata2 and the m/b is sata then you need a jumper on the drive limiting it to sata 150mg if you do not know if the manual is available look in the listing at the front and see if it says sata or sata2 300mg capable __________________

02-18-2007, 12:06 PM	#5 (permalink)
Sgt_Grim_Reaper Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New Mexico Posts: 396 OS: XP Pro SP3 My System	yeah, full specs are needed __________________ Allow Color BBCode No, Allow Size BBCode No, Allow [IMG] Code No, Can Upload Images for Signature No, Can Upload Animated GIF for Signature No, Allow Smilies No, Can Have Fun No

02-18-2007, 12:17 PM	#7 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 53,599 OS: vista 32x 64x ultimate retail	it's 5.30am here will be going offline soon but one of the others is sure to pick it up __________________

02-18-2007, 11:32 AM	#3 (permalink)
Andy128 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Michigan Posts: 380 OS: xp	How would I load the RAID driver? Additionally- why the need for a RAID driver if I am not setting it up as RAID. I simply want it to see drive one and drive two. I thought I had effectively turned off RAID in the BIOS when I had it treat the main drive as SATA/PATA in stead of RAID. I am new to this somewhat. Thanks in advance. Andy

02-18-2007, 12:07 PM	#6 (permalink)
Andy128 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Michigan Posts: 380 OS: xp	dai- Thanks for responding. I know it is a sata drive- just dont know if it is a sata2. I will find out later tonight. Hope you'll be around to help troubleshoot. Cheers- Andy

02-18-2007, 07:19 PM	#8 (permalink)
Andy128 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Michigan Posts: 380 OS: xp	dai- It was as simple as turning that drive on in bios. Done. It is formatting now. All should be fine. Thanks again. Andy

02-18-2007, 07:46 PM	#9 (permalink)
Sgt_Grim_Reaper Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New Mexico Posts: 396 OS: XP Pro SP3 My System	now I have heard everything. __________________ Allow Color BBCode No, Allow Size BBCode No, Allow [IMG] Code No, Can Upload Images for Signature No, Can Upload Animated GIF for Signature No, Allow Smilies No, Can Have Fun No

02-19-2007, 08:01 AM	#10 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 53,599 OS: vista 32x 64x ultimate retail	it's usually the simple things we tend to overlook __________________