i have a SOYO kt 880 dragon2 mobo. i got a 80 gig hdd ide as my primary. but i got 2 Satas 250 gig hhds . i want to add them to my comp for storage . how do i configure tha bios to get windows to reconize them?
Install the hard drives.
Go into the bios and maker sure the SATA connections are turned on.
Boot to windows and goto disk management. From there you can initilize the drives and format them.
You shouldn't need to configure anything in BIOS other than to make sure that SATA is enabled. Also, with SATA you don't have to deal with master/slave like you did with PATA. One note: some older SATA 1 motherboards have trouble with SATA II drives... but I'm not well versed in the specifics. In most cases though all you need to do is plug them in, format them, and you should be ready to go.
well in tha bios i enabled tha SATA and restarted and windows loads and i went to disk management and nope its not there. does it matter which SATA port that i use theres like 4 of them.
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