DeathHawk

Hi all,

I recently installed 2 new 320gb hdd's and am unable to load any o/s on them.

I have vista premium and xp. When i tried to load xp,it got to the "choose drive to install on" but neither of the drives were in the list

When i tried to load vista,it got to the pick a drive section and they were both listed.
The only trouble is there is only 9mb of free allocated space on each so i had to exit the set up as it couldnt load..i had the option to change this but am unsure of what that should be

Both drives are seen in bios and disk management.I formatted both of them and there is now 298gb free on each..am i meant to right click to make them active? I did that to one but didnt notice any difference

The 2 new drives are on the raid sata points but in bios all the settings are set as ide and the promise controller is enabled

I have never had this issue with drives so am stumped at the moment after hours of trying to work it out

Any help will be greatly appreciated

gadgtman

Have you tried disconnecting one drive? Or, did you try installing with only 1 drive active. Also if Promise controller is enabled, that probably, maybe means RAID controller is enabled? In which case if you don't want to run raid then disable Promise.

DeathHawk

Hi,

When you mention active..do you mean the one i clicked on and turned active? Once i formatted them am i meant to make both of them active anyway?

I disconnected the 2 drives that im currently using..leaving me with the 2 new formatted drives...i tried loading the o/s but still got the same problem.I disabled the promise controller but then the 2 drives did not appear in my computer..i enabled it again and they reappeared.

My motherboard is ASUS P4P800-E DELUXE

I have my 2 old drives on the normal sata points and have no problem.In bios, all the raid functions have been turned off

I have noticed in device manager that my old drives are listed as sata drives but the new ones as SCSI disk device...is that ok?

linderman

yes; them being listed as SCSI is just fine


you must make a choice between buying two adapters that will allow you to convert your sata data plug to an IDE plug, then connect both drives on the Primary IDE connector for Raid, they wont need to run in a raid configuration in this manner

or / if you connect these two drives to the sata raid plugs on the motherboard, they will be FORCED to configure a raid array ????

which is more appealing to you ???????

personally I would go with independant drives

if you have an IDE drive kicking around, connect it to the primary raid IDE port which looks like any other IDE drive port, except its down low and at the bottom of the motherboard ??????

then see if you are able to "see" whats in the drive contents when connected like this ????????????

linderman

Like this:

http://www.cooldrives.com/sata-drive...rter-mini.html



or you will need to disable the onboard controller and use this ????

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816102061