Hi all,
I successfully (ish) built my first computer last night.....yay
Although i am having (hopefully) a minor problem.
I bought two Samsung HD400LJ Hard drives. the plan was to have raid in operations, however i didnt realise that you needed a floppy disk to boot from and needless to say a floppy drive from which to boot from the disk..... i had neither and i didnt want to wait.
I installed the two drives (OEM versions). Only one came with a ... not sure of the name.... but its the thing that you push over some points to determine if its a master or a slave drive. so ..... I only had one of those, which i think is okay as i beleive that one of them will auto master or auto slave.
I used SATA cables to connect to my Gigabyte S series - P35-DS3P mobo. I set the master drive into *** sata connections 00 and the slave into the connection 01. (worth noting here that i also installed samsung dvd writer into sata 03).
When in BIOS the computer detects both drives + DVD (note - *** DVD is being registered as Master (it came with no little black thing to put on points)).
When i am in Device manager is shows both drives, however, i am only getting 400gig drive space (and i know i have not set sata up).i have also just noted that when in device manager i do NOT have the option of disabling one of the drives (i assume this is the one thats not working).
If its being detected everwhere, why do i not have the space.
Can anyone please help...... can i kindly ask that you bear in mind that although i built this thing i am very much an amature !
thanks in advance.
Lee
I successfully (ish) built my first computer last night.....yay
Although i am having (hopefully) a minor problem.
I bought two Samsung HD400LJ Hard drives. the plan was to have raid in operations, however i didnt realise that you needed a floppy disk to boot from and needless to say a floppy drive from which to boot from the disk..... i had neither and i didnt want to wait.
I installed the two drives (OEM versions). Only one came with a ... not sure of the name.... but its the thing that you push over some points to determine if its a master or a slave drive. so ..... I only had one of those, which i think is okay as i beleive that one of them will auto master or auto slave.
I used SATA cables to connect to my Gigabyte S series - P35-DS3P mobo. I set the master drive into *** sata connections 00 and the slave into the connection 01. (worth noting here that i also installed samsung dvd writer into sata 03).
When in BIOS the computer detects both drives + DVD (note - *** DVD is being registered as Master (it came with no little black thing to put on points)).
When i am in Device manager is shows both drives, however, i am only getting 400gig drive space (and i know i have not set sata up).i have also just noted that when in device manager i do NOT have the option of disabling one of the drives (i assume this is the one thats not working).
If its being detected everwhere, why do i not have the space.
Can anyone please help...... can i kindly ask that you bear in mind that although i built this thing i am very much an amature !
thanks in advance.
Lee