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NEW...SATA Issue

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DaBuddMon

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I'm having trouble getting a new SATA drive to display in Windows with my GA-8INXP mobo. I have XP (updated, etc) installed on a 36GB SCSI drive (my boot drive). The SCSI controller is an Adaptec PCI card. I also have 2 IDE 80GB drives setup in a RAID 0 config on the onboard Promise controller this Gigabyte mobo has. Now, this Gigabyte mobo also has an onboard SATA controller (not the Promise one either, seperate controller, a SI 3112).

I'm trying to hook up a WD SATA 120GB HD. When I do this and boot into Windows, the drive is there in the device manager, even shows it is running in DMA 5 (though I thought it should be in DMA 6?). Says it is working properly as well. But I don't see the drive as a drive letter - nothing is there. In my BIOS settings, I have the SATA controller enabled (it's also in the device manager and Windows installed it when I enabled it in the BIOS), and it is configured for BASE funtion, not RAID. I have tried different SATA cables, tried both SATA slots on the mobo, even disabled the Promise RAID controller. Nothing works. I bought two of these 120GB HDs, and both are doing the same thing, and I've tried 4 different SATA cables. The drive shows up as a Hard Disk in the device manager, right name and all, but doesn't show up as a drive in My Computer. Diagnostics on the drive show both are working fine. So does anyone know what the problem could be?
 
Don't you have to configure and format new drives in XP's Drive Manager? I can't confirm because we have Win98 at work, but you haven't mentioned checking it yet.
 
yeah right click on my computer, manage, disk management, locate the disk, create a partition and format.
 
Yup!, I agree with the two preceding replies in this thread. Your SATA drive(s) have not yet been partitioned or formatted. Go to Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance (if your Control Panel is in Category view) > Administrative Tools > Computer Management. Then click Disk Management. You'll see your SATA drive(s) in there, offline. Bring them online, then partition and format those two drives. You don't need to convert them to dynamic disks at this time.
 
Lol. Man do I feel dumb. Erm, heh, let's just pretend this thread never existed...thanks for the help all.
 
E4g1e said:
Go to Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance (if your Control Panel is in Category view) > Administrative Tools > Computer Management. Then click Disk Management..
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see I used to type all that out too, but
A. its different in W2K and
B. it just takes forever to type

so

Start > Run > (type) diskmgmt.msc ;)

much easier on the digits and W2K applicable as well


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E4g1e said:
You don't need to convert them to dynamic disks at this time.
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or ever (I hate that damn wizard)

Best Practices for Dyanmic Disks on Windows 2000-Based Computers

The Write Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard
When you start the Disk Management snap-in, it will enumerate all disks in the system to see if any disks have changed or if any new disks were attached to the system. If Disk Management finds any disks that are unknown, that are not initialized, or that do not have a disk signature in the MBR, Disk Management starts the Write Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard.

The wizard first prompts you to select which disks that you want to write a disk signature to; by default, no disks are selected. To select the disks, click the check boxes next to the disk numbers.

The wizard then prompts you to select which disks that you want to upgrade to dynamic disks. Each disk that you selected on the first page is automatically selected here. If you continue without clearing the disk check boxes, LDM writes a disk signature and upgrades all the disks that you selected to dynamic disks automatically.

NOTE: This wizard was changed in Windows XP and later. It no longer automatically selects the disks to be upgraded to dynamic.

If the MBR of a dynamic disk is zeroed out (for example, because of a hardware problem), when you start Disk Management, the Write Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard starts. If you permit the disk to be reconverted to dynamic, the original LDM database is overwritten by the newly initialized LDM database. Disk Management shows that disk as healthy and only shows unallocated free space. If you have another healthy dynamic disk in the system at the time of conversion, its LDM database is then replicated to the newly converted dynamic disk and a "missing" disk (representing the original dynamic disk) is also shown in Disk Management.

Because of this, it is best that you disable the Write Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard in Windows 2000, or that you caution users about the default behavior of the wizard, and be careful not to accidentally reconvert a disk that was previously dynamic.

To manually disable the wizard, follow these steps.
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highly recommend removing it on any system that your not the admin of, and where the user might accidentally "upgrade' :rolleyes:
even if it no longer defaults under XP


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