How do I get a SATA drive "recognized"?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How do I get a SATA drive "recognized"?

Posted: 6/3/2008 8:24:41 AM EDT

Put in my first SATA drive on a Socket 939 system running two IDE drives-it shows up in BIOS as well as device manager for XP (supposedly "working properly"), yet doesn't show up under "My hard drives." Any ideas?

Posted: 6/3/2008 8:28:20 AM EDT

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Put in my first SATA drive on a Socket 939 system running two IDE drives-it shows up in BIOS as well as device manager for XP (supposedly "working properly"), yet doesn't show up under "My hard drives." Any ideas?

Have you partitioned and formatted the drives?

Posted: 6/3/2008 8:34:20 AM EDT

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Put in my first SATA drive on a Socket 939 system running two IDE drives-it shows up in BIOS as well as device manager for XP (supposedly "working properly"), yet doesn't show up under "My hard drives." Any ideas?

Have you partitioned and formatted the drives?

The IDE drives are GTG and running Windows-would it be possible to format the SATA drive from a command line?

Posted: 6/3/2008 8:45:35 AM EDT

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Put in my first SATA drive on a Socket 939 system running two IDE drives-it shows up in BIOS as well as device manager for XP (supposedly "working properly"), yet doesn't show up under "My hard drives." Any ideas?

Right click on "My Computer".. click on "Manage"..

Find "Disk Management" in the "Computer Management" window and click on it..

It should show up there.. you will need to create a partition and format it..

If it is showing up in Device Manager then you should have the correct sata drivers.. I hope..

Posted: 6/3/2008 8:49:47 AM EDT

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Put in my first SATA drive on a Socket 939 system running two IDE drives-it shows up in BIOS as well as device manager for XP (supposedly "working properly"), yet doesn't show up under "My hard drives." Any ideas?

Have you partitioned and formatted the drives?

The IDE drives are GTG and running Windows-would it be possible to format the SATA drive from a command line?

Another way (pdg45acp's works too):

Control Panel => Administrative Tools => Computer Management => Storage => Disk Management