Problem trying to install a Third SATA drive. HELP

Thox

Thox

Thox

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Hi all,

I have recently purchased a new 250 GB SATA Hard Drive as my existing 40 GB IDE Hard Drive, which I use to store all my data on has run out of space. I currently have two 160GB SATA Drives in Raid 0 array, in SATA's 1 & 2.

I have tried to install the thrid drive as a standalone drive, but the computer cannot see it. I have pluged this drive into the SATA 3 slot on the motherboard and enabled this slot in the BIOS. On the first run if installing it, it recognise that a new piece of hardware had been added and requested to install the driver. After sometime, it finally installed the Silicon Image Driver (the existing Raid is using the Intel Driver), but the drive does not show up.

Am I doing something really stupid or missing something. Any help greatly appreciated.

As a matter of interest I am using Windows Vista Beta 2 at the moment, not sure if this is the problem though.

Many Thanks

Thox
 
Just to check, is there a proper driver for the Silicon Image chip in Windows Vista? If so then you might have to go into Disk Management(Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Disk Management) and check if it is there then probably format. I'm assuming that Microsoft have kept the same rough layout for Vista but if not I still think you want to find Disk/Drive Management :)
 
Thanks for your reply guys.

I tried switching the plug from SATA controller 3 to 4 and amazingly it found the drive, not sure why this should be, but it finally found it. YAY

Regards

Thox
 
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