[SOLVED] XP will not recagnise my SATA drive

Adster · 03-20-2008, 04:57 AM

I seem to have a strange issue

I just recently installed a 500 gig Samsnug SATA-300 drive

in the device manager it finds it in their as the correct driver

HD tune a freeware program recagnises it even does a scan

but when I go to my computer and I select the drive in this case it is drive I: it just says *Please insert a disk into drive I) as you can see below

Mother Motherboard is

GA-K8N Ultra 9 sockert 939 Nforce 4

I do have another 200 Gig SATA drive in here as well and works fine I cant work out the problem it seems to read everywhere and the drivers but will not read in my computer

any ideas at all?

thanks

Adster · 03-20-2008, 06:18 AM

It also seems to be showing it as a USB mass storage device

what the hell can I do to get this to read as a HD? its driving me crazy!

dai · 03-20-2008, 10:42 AM

have you formatted the drive in disk mangement
windows will not see an unformatted drive

Adster · 03-20-2008, 05:18 PM

yess thats what it was somthing as simple as that ahhhh thanks dai I feel so stupid now

dai · 03-20-2008, 06:20 PM

nice easy fix glad it sorted it

03-20-2008, 04:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
Adster Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 5 OS: XP	[SOLVED] XP will not recagnise my SATA drive I seem to have a strange issue I just recently installed a 500 gig Samsnug SATA-300 drive in the device manager it finds it in their as the correct driver HD tune a freeware program recagnises it even does a scan but when I go to my computer and I select the drive in this case it is drive I: it just says *Please insert a disk into drive I) as you can see below Mother Motherboard is GA-K8N Ultra 9 sockert 939 Nforce 4 I do have another 200 Gig SATA drive in here as well and works fine I cant work out the problem it seems to read everywhere and the drivers but will not read in my computer any ideas at all? thanks

03-20-2008, 06:18 AM	#2 (permalink)
Adster Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 5 OS: XP	Re: XP will not recagnise my SATA drive It also seems to be showing it as a USB mass storage device what the hell can I do to get this to read as a HD? its driving me crazy!

03-20-2008, 10:42 AM	#3 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,213 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: XP will not recagnise my SATA drive have you formatted the drive in disk mangement windows will not see an unformatted drive __________________

03-20-2008, 05:18 PM	#4 (permalink)
Adster Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 5 OS: XP	Re: XP will not recagnise my SATA drive yess thats what it was somthing as simple as that ahhhh thanks dai I feel so stupid now

03-20-2008, 06:20 PM	#5 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,213 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: XP will not recagnise my SATA drive nice easy fix glad it sorted it __________________