SATA Problem

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Syrnix

Limp Gawd
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I just made some upgrades to my computer. I put a DFI NF4 Ultra Infinity motherboard and I attached to it two WD 250GB SATA II hard drive. The DFI board supports 4 SATA II drives. I attached one drive to SATA port 1 and the other to SATA port 2.

I then booted up the computer and both drives are listed in the BIOS. I then boot to my Win XP Pro CD and installed it to the first WD hard drive. Both drives were listed as drives I could have installed windows on. After I installed Win XP Pro and it formatted the first drive I went into My Computer to format the second drive and it was not listed.

Now I do not want to RAID connect these drives I want them to be completely separate. Should I have put the second hard drive SATA 3 or maybe 4?

The Manual for this motherboard is a joke.
 
Did you check under computer management, under control panel, in admin tools?
 
Yeah, if you don't format the drive during install it won't normally show up in my computer after the install.
 
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