RAID Drives Recognised In BIOS But Not All Recognised In XP

[Janusz]

Hi

Below is my setup:

Intel Q6600 Quad Processor
GIGA GA-P35-DS4 Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix 2 x 1 GB DDR2 8500 RAM
4 x Seagate Barracuda 500 GB HDD 7500.10

I have set up 2 Drives in RAID-0 (Striped) and 2 non RAID SATA Drives.

In BIOS (and when the system loads) it recognises all of the drives - no problems here.

In Windows Explorer it only shows the partitioned hard drive I made during XP installation (C: Drive which is 250GB) - Why?

When I run the Intel Matrix controller software it shows all of my 4 Hard Drives as does Windows Hardware Profile property inspector.

All 4 HDDs are in the Intel Ornage Controller. I have no HDDS on the Purple GIGA Controller

Any ideas?

 

[Janusz]

If the OS is installed then the correct drivers are there. There problem here is that the drives haven't been partitioned and formatted in Disk Management - right click on My Computer and pick Manage.

Yep that was the problem, all sorted now. Thanks for helping us out again rpstewart