A7N8X SATA Raid with single drive

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You loaded the sata drivers? formated the disk?

"Florian Puersch" <f.puersch@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Hi NG,
>
> I have a A7N8X 2.0 Deluxe with a single Samsung HDD attached to the
> SATA-controller. I want the drive as a single drive (don't even want to
boot
> from it). How can I do this?
>
> At the moment, the controller knows the HDD and my WinXP knows the
> controller, but I don't see the HDD within windows.
>
> Florian
>
>

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

Did you partition the disk? I don't think XP will see it until it is
partitioned. You may use partition magic or a win98 bootable floppy
and run fdisk.
Then format it from xp

Rico

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:00:59 +0200, "Florian Puersch"
<f.puersch@gmx.de> wrote:

>Hi NG,
>
>I have a A7N8X 2.0 Deluxe with a single Samsung HDD attached to the
>SATA-controller. I want the drive as a single drive (don't even want to boot
>from it). How can I do this?
>
>At the moment, the controller knows the HDD and my WinXP knows the
>controller, but I don't see the HDD within windows.
>
>Florian
>