Two SATA (only one being picked up)

safeastinkywinky · 31 Oct 2006 at 16:38

I have to Maxtor Sata drives and an ABIT AW9D-MAX Mobo. It only picks up one drive no matter how I configure everything in the bios. I haven't got a floppy drive so I can't add the extra drive during Windows install. Can I add it after installing Windows on one of the drives?

Cheers,

Gareth

rpstewart · 31 Oct 2006 at 17:49

Yes, you'll be able to add the second disk after the windows install but only as a second individul disk, not as part of a RAID array (not sure if this was your intention or not).

When you say "it" only picks up one drive, what is "it"?

safeastinkywinky · 1 Nov 2006 at 00:16

Yeah as an individual is fine. How do I do that? I have one being detected in the bios and in Windows but the other one not at all!!! Thanks

safeastinkywinky · 1 Nov 2006 at 00:27

I've got it to pick up in the bios now and Windows to recognise and install it. But still it doesn't show in my computer!!!

33L · 1 Nov 2006 at 09:10

is it formatted? try using partition magic to format it and it should show up fine.

rpstewart · 1 Nov 2006 at 09:51

No need to go as far as Partition magic.

Right click on My computer and pick Manage. The select Disk Management from the left hand tree of the new Window. The new disk will show in the right hand pane as being unpartitioned, right click and create a new partition and format as NTFS at the same time.

33L · 1 Nov 2006 at 12:07

rpstewart said:
No need to go as far as Partition magic.

Im always told i have to be complicated - but yeah either/or is fine should solve your problems

safeastinkywinky · 7 Nov 2006 at 15:39

I RAIDED them together using the Abit floppy and re-formatted Windows. Did the trick!