[SOLVED] SATA HD not recognized...Help!

Pinballwizard96 · 03-18-2008, 08:10 PM

I have 1 IDE HD, 1 new SATA HD (unformatted), and 1 CD/DVD drive in my computer. The IDE is set to master & the disk drive set to slave. When I boot up, the BIOS recognizes the SATA drive, setting it to master. When I log on, however, the SATA is not visible or accessible in any way. I am thinking the configuration is ok because 1 drive is IDE & 1 is SATA. Any ideas on what's wrong?
Thanks

dai · 03-19-2008, 12:24 AM

is it set to be seen as ide in the bios

Pinballwizard96 · 03-19-2008, 10:29 AM

I messed around a bit... The SATA showed up on the device manager. When I opened computer management in the control panel and went to disk management, the SATA showed up as inaccessible because it wasn't online. I switched it to online & now it is ready to be formatted. Everything working fine now.
Thanks

dai · 03-19-2008, 10:41 AM

glad you have it sorted

03-18-2008, 08:10 PM	#1 (permalink)
Pinballwizard96 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: MY OWN AWESOME WORLD Posts: 2 OS: XP SP2	[SOLVED] SATA HD not recognized...Help! I have 1 IDE HD, 1 new SATA HD (unformatted), and 1 CD/DVD drive in my computer. The IDE is set to master & the disk drive set to slave. When I boot up, the BIOS recognizes the SATA drive, setting it to master. When I log on, however, the SATA is not visible or accessible in any way. I am thinking the configuration is ok because 1 drive is IDE & 1 is SATA. Any ideas on what's wrong? Thanks

03-19-2008, 12:24 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 53,622 OS: vista 32x 64x ultimate retail	Re: SATA HD not recognized...Help! is it set to be seen as ide in the bios __________________

03-19-2008, 10:29 AM	#3 (permalink)
Pinballwizard96 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: MY OWN AWESOME WORLD Posts: 2 OS: XP SP2	Re: SATA HD not recognized...Help! I messed around a bit... The SATA showed up on the device manager. When I opened computer management in the control panel and went to disk management, the SATA showed up as inaccessible because it wasn't online. I switched it to online & now it is ready to be formatted. Everything working fine now. Thanks

03-19-2008, 10:41 AM	#4 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 53,622 OS: vista 32x 64x ultimate retail	Re: SATA HD not recognized...Help! glad you have it sorted __________________