Installing SATA Hard Drives

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Scratch that first part, about windows not detecting the drive. I did some
messing around and it turned out to be a faulty power plug. I still cant
acess the drive thogh, and the device manager says its working properly.

"Brian" wrote:

> I finally finished building my computer, but the IDE hard drive i had in it
> was only 8 gigs. I instantly filled this to the brim with various
> applications of all sorts (everything from Adobe Photoshop to STEAM). So i
> bought myself annother drive, this time a 250 GB SATA. I physically installed
> it (IE actually put it in the box and pluged it in). I have RAID drivers for
> it, and installed those with out too much hastle, but my computer dosent
> detect the extra drive at all, much less acesses it. All i really want to do
> is add annother drive i can save stuff to, like an E:\ drive or something.

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Did you READ the motherboard manual?

"Brian" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I finally finished building my computer, but the IDE hard drive i had in it
> was only 8 gigs. I instantly filled this to the brim with various
> applications of all sorts (everything from Adobe Photoshop to STEAM). So i
> bought myself annother drive, this time a 250 GB SATA. I physically
> installed
> it (IE actually put it in the box and pluged it in). I have RAID drivers
> for
> it, and installed those with out too much hastle, but my computer dosent
> detect the extra drive at all, much less acesses it. All i really want to
> do
> is add annother drive i can save stuff to, like an E:\ drive or something.

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Go to Disk Management and partition and format it.

"Brian" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9E68A9CE-349D-4A7B-B9C6-2BCFF3A36FDB@microsoft.com...
>I finally finished building my computer, but the IDE hard drive i had in it
> was only 8 gigs. I instantly filled this to the brim with various
> applications of all sorts (everything from Adobe Photoshop to STEAM). So i
> bought myself annother drive, this time a 250 GB SATA. I physically
> installed
> it (IE actually put it in the box and pluged it in). I have RAID drivers
> for
> it, and installed those with out too much hastle, but my computer dosent
> detect the extra drive at all, much less acesses it. All i really want to
> do
> is add annother drive i can save stuff to, like an E:\ drive or something.

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<©¿©> wrote:
> that was my question too!

I recently retired my noisy IDE drive for a pair of fast & quiet SATA discs
of the same size & connected them to the on-board RAID controller of my
A7N8X-E. Disc 0 has one active boot partition & logical volumes whilst disc
1 has logical volumes only. You don't have to use RAID. I wouldn't buy a PCI
RAID card to do this /unless/ my motherboard didn't have SATA & I really,
really wanted them. I assume the OP has built-in RAID.

Having 2 identical discs allows me to experiment later with RAID 0 when I've
either purchased an IDE drive for backups or a Firewire/USB2 external one.
I'm not sure if you actually need to install the RAID drivers for this
config but I did (SI3112). Boot time off SATA 0 is about 2 secs longer than
if the RAID controller was disabled in the Bios - a small penalty.

Regards, Paul