Ok what it is, is that i bought i sata 2 250gb samgsung hard drive i put it in and started it up but for some reason the computer knows its there but it isnt if you know what i mean, because i can boot from it yet it says its not there. ive looked though the bio's nothing, can anyone help?
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Sata 2 Hdd Problem
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Are you trying to say that it shows up in BIOS but not in windows?
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Ah ok.
So it shows up in BIOS
In Windows, (assuming its XP), right click my computer, press manage and then disk management. The drive should be there, assign a drive letter to it and add it.
So it shows up in BIOS
In Windows, (assuming its XP), right click my computer, press manage and then disk management. The drive should be there, assign a drive letter to it and add it.
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Go into Disk Management (right click my computer and select "Manage"), and see if you see the disk there. If you do, you need to initialise the disk and then format it.
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Ah, well that's your problem, it's in your MB BIOS. To get around this, your MB should come with a driver CD that should allow you to create a (3 1/2") Disk with the required drivers. When start loading windows, it will at some stage prompt you to press a key to load any 3rd party drivers, this is when you press the key, then insert the disk you made. Then the rest is the normal process loading windows.
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Use your MB CD in another PC, there should be a facility to create a driver floppy disk, insert a blank floppy and use that.
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Yeah you generally need a floppy in a windows installation
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No, first create the driver floppy by using the MB CD (on another computer). Once you have this disk, then go back to your PC and load windows from the Windows CD. Once it prompts you (see the bottom text, it should say something like "Press a key to load third party drivers" or something along those lines, press the required key, then you insert the driver floppy disk. Once it has loaded the drivers, the rest is as per normal Windows installation.
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Zalmann, just so you know...
Most motherboard CD's are 'bootable'. You can acutally boot from the mobo CD (without ANY OS installed) and create your SATA or RAID floppy.
I've never had the drivers on the mobo CD work...I usually just download from mfg website onto another PC.
Or use NLite and your XP CD and 'slipstream' your RAID and SATA drivers.
Most motherboard CD's are 'bootable'. You can acutally boot from the mobo CD (without ANY OS installed) and create your SATA or RAID floppy.
I've never had the drivers on the mobo CD work...I usually just download from mfg website onto another PC.
Or use NLite and your XP CD and 'slipstream' your RAID and SATA drivers.
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Yes, I know that. Actually now that you mention it, now I understand what Kade meant in his last comment.
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have you ever had it actually work though? (mobo supplied drivers i mean)
It took me 2 days on my pc to get RAID 0 going...but my bro's RAID 0 was much quicker once I discovered Nlite.
SATA has NEVER been easy to install with XP...kinda sux. Wonder if they made it better on Vista?
It took me 2 days on my pc to get RAID 0 going...but my bro's RAID 0 was much quicker once I discovered Nlite.
SATA has NEVER been easy to install with XP...kinda sux. Wonder if they made it better on Vista?
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I haven't tried it myself, my XP Pro disk has SP2 slipstreamed into it and it detects my SATA controller. My ASROCK MB CD has that feature, but as I don't have a 3 1/2" FDD, I never bother.
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You have a faulty Floppy disk. Get a new one and try it again.
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Some motherboards let you use a USB flash disk as a floppy. I know ASUS ones do.
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Good luck with it.