what am I doing wrong here ???

[DisrupTer911]

I just got a SATA WD3200JD drive.

I've isntalled it on Sata1 on my MSI K8N Neo2

windows recognized the drive as a removable storage device. but it does NOT show up under My computer or under Disk management.

I used teh windows xp pro disk to go in and create a 305gb partition on it thinking maybe then windows will see it as a drive.

Nope. Do I need to format it under the windows install disk? but won't it try to install xp on it when teh format finishes?

Do I need to install a SATA driver for a standalone harddrive?

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I've enver had a single SATA hdd on this mobo, only my RAID array w/ the raptors and that required its only seperate RAID and SATA drivers.

how do I get it to show up? lol i'm brain farting hardcore here

 

[cooter]

see if you can find it in partition magic.

 

[agent4256]

maybe you need some sata drivers?

 

[DisrupTer911]

my SATA Plextor PX716 SA dvd burner doesn't need a driver tho.

I'll have to get my hands on partition magic and see what I can find.

Any other ideas or suggestions?

 

[DisrupTer911]

Just wanted to post an update:

I got it working finally with teh help from a friend and his suggestions!

Originally, i'd get the RAID array on SATA 1/2. I later changed it to SATA 3/4 so that I could overclock the CPU.

Well, I never took the SATA RAID setting off SATA 1/2 in the BIOS.

Once I turned off the RAID setting on those ports, it worked first try.

Thanks for the help guys