[resolved]Hard Drives not detected when connecting new SATA Drive - Page 2

dai · 05-25-2007, 01:12 PM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817194011
one of your friends may have upgraded and have one they can loan you to try in it

Autorita · 06-03-2007, 04:31 PM

Alright!!! I'm closer to victory! :pray

I ended up ordering two items to get this new HDD to work!

One was the Power supply that you recommended. I feel that you were probably right on my system being under powered and it probably is now helping many other things that coul dhave been wrong with my system. So thanks for that!

Also, I ordered this PCI controller card so I could use the SATAII that I paid for with my mother board which doesn't support it:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816210001

I installed it into the system and that seems to be working great!

I just hooked up the new HDD that I had and it is recognising it on the SATA controller card....problem is, now how do I get it to recognise it as a hard drive instead of a SCSI device? I was aware that it would recognise it as so, but forgot what the next step is to accessing it as another hard drive?

Thanks so much for the upgrade tips...almost done!

EDIT:

Just wanted to add that this is all I'm able to find in Windows...as it's not coming up under My Computer or anything:

The WD is my other drive which does come up under My Computer.

dai · 06-04-2007, 11:03 AM

don't worry about what it lists it as
windows will not see it until you go into disk management and format it

Autorita · 06-04-2007, 12:09 PM

It's rollin great now!! Thanks to everyone for their help on solving this issue and fixing some others along the way!

I made the mistake of starting a new thread when the SCSI to SATA problem came about, so anyone who's cruisin through this with the same problems, please refer to this for a bit of extra help:

HDD through SATA PCI Controller

Thanks again TSF.

05-25-2007, 01:12 PM	#21 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,746 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Hard Drives not detected when connecting new SATA Drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817194011 one of your friends may have upgraded and have one they can loan you to try in it __________________

06-03-2007, 04:31 PM	#22 (permalink)
Autorita Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: New York Posts: 22 OS: XP	Re: Hard Drives not detected when connecting new SATA Drive Alright!!! I'm closer to victory! :pray I ended up ordering two items to get this new HDD to work! One was the Power supply that you recommended. I feel that you were probably right on my system being under powered and it probably is now helping many other things that coul dhave been wrong with my system. So thanks for that! Also, I ordered this PCI controller card so I could use the SATAII that I paid for with my mother board which doesn't support it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816210001 I installed it into the system and that seems to be working great! I just hooked up the new HDD that I had and it is recognising it on the SATA controller card....problem is, now how do I get it to recognise it as a hard drive instead of a SCSI device? I was aware that it would recognise it as so, but forgot what the next step is to accessing it as another hard drive? Thanks so much for the upgrade tips...almost done! EDIT: Just wanted to add that this is all I'm able to find in Windows...as it's not coming up under My Computer or anything: The WD is my other drive which does come up under My Computer. Last edited by Autorita; 06-03-2007 at 04:58 PM.

06-04-2007, 11:03 AM	#23 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,746 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Hard Drives not detected when connecting new SATA Drive don't worry about what it lists it as windows will not see it until you go into disk management and format it __________________

06-04-2007, 12:09 PM	#24 (permalink)
Autorita Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: New York Posts: 22 OS: XP	Re: Hard Drives not detected when connecting new SATA Drive It's rollin great now!! Thanks to everyone for their help on solving this issue and fixing some others along the way! I made the mistake of starting a new thread when the SCSI to SATA problem came about, so anyone who's cruisin through this with the same problems, please refer to this for a bit of extra help: HDD through SATA PCI Controller Thanks again TSF.