Hi all,
I have put together my first computer which is great and its working also, which is always a bonus.
I do however, have one problem. I purchased two Samsung HD400LJ hard drives. The plan was to have them operating in RAID to get maximum speed. HOwever, this being my first construction i didnt know that you needed a floppy disk from which to boot and needless to say a floppy disc drive upon which to run the disk..... sadly i purchased neither.
So..... i settled for 800gig of HD space, which actualy seems like a good idea as i had filled 500 on my last computer.
I bought two OEM versions, so no cables, no instructions and for some reason only ONE Jack (thats *** name i call the bit that makes it a master or slave drive). I dont beleive that i only have one of these is a problem as i beleive it defaults to master or slave (one or the other) if you do not have two.
So.....installed i did, one as master and one as slave. Both of these are plugged into the SATA 00 and 01 on my GIGABYTE P35-DS3P mobo.
Now, upon first boot i entered *** BIOS and both drives are detected, one as master and one as slave (please note at ths point that i have a DVD rewritter plugged into SATA 02 - this is registered as a master to).
WHen i load up windows i am only getting the disk space of one HD (400gig). Both units are detected in the Device Manager. When in disk manager i note that on one drive i have the option to disable it, but this is only an option on one of the drives. I have options to update drives on both, which i have done to no success.
i had some problems installing Vista to start with, but after a few re-boots and looking through *** BIOS (making no changes), it worked the third time.
I havent started plugging/unpluggin the drives as i do not want to lose the windows installation.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I might have done wrong?
THanks
LAM
I have put together my first computer which is great and its working also, which is always a bonus.
I do however, have one problem. I purchased two Samsung HD400LJ hard drives. The plan was to have them operating in RAID to get maximum speed. HOwever, this being my first construction i didnt know that you needed a floppy disk from which to boot and needless to say a floppy disc drive upon which to run the disk..... sadly i purchased neither.
So..... i settled for 800gig of HD space, which actualy seems like a good idea as i had filled 500 on my last computer.
I bought two OEM versions, so no cables, no instructions and for some reason only ONE Jack (thats *** name i call the bit that makes it a master or slave drive). I dont beleive that i only have one of these is a problem as i beleive it defaults to master or slave (one or the other) if you do not have two.
So.....installed i did, one as master and one as slave. Both of these are plugged into the SATA 00 and 01 on my GIGABYTE P35-DS3P mobo.
Now, upon first boot i entered *** BIOS and both drives are detected, one as master and one as slave (please note at ths point that i have a DVD rewritter plugged into SATA 02 - this is registered as a master to).
WHen i load up windows i am only getting the disk space of one HD (400gig). Both units are detected in the Device Manager. When in disk manager i note that on one drive i have the option to disable it, but this is only an option on one of the drives. I have options to update drives on both, which i have done to no success.
i had some problems installing Vista to start with, but after a few re-boots and looking through *** BIOS (making no changes), it worked the third time.
I havent started plugging/unpluggin the drives as i do not want to lose the windows installation.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I might have done wrong?
THanks
LAM