SATA and IDE

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Lo all,

My current hard drive setup in my PC is a system drive (C: ) of 10gb and a data drive (D: ) of 80gb. Both are physical disks on IDE.

My dads work computer recently went pop and while fixing it, I have taken out the SATA hard drive and popped it into my computer to salvage his data. When I booted my computer it asked me to configure RAID which i did, then restarted again. This time on boot the drive showed up, and the computer booted as normal from my system drive (I was worried it would try to boot from the SATA drive!).

Once in windows however, the drive does not show up in My Computer, or in Disk Management.

Have I done something wrong or am I missing any steps here?
 
Err. You configured RAID on the SATA disk? Tell us how you did that: there's a very large likelihood that you've just formatted the disk.

To get Disk Management to see the volume, you'll need to install the drivers for your RAID adaptor.
 
When I plugged the drive in, and booted, the startup asked me to configure RAID. At the end of this process it asked me if I would like to initialize the disk and I selected no. On reebot the disk showed up in the BIOS checks.

The RAID is onboard so i didn't think it'd need any new drivers.
 
You might need to set the drive you have connected as a slave using the jumpers. I'm not sure if SATA uses master/slave though. Also check to see if your drive has been assigned a letter. This can be done by right clicking on my computer and then choosing "manage".
 
I was thinking that might be the case. As the jumper settings weren't printed on the disk and it was the only SATA disk in the machine, i couldn't be bothered setting them. I'll look them up on the manufacturers website tonight.
 
Rameses Niblick III Kerplunk Kerplunk Whoops Where's My Thribble
I was thinking that might be the case. As the jumper settings weren't printed on the disk and it was the only SATA disk in the machine, i couldn't be bothered setting them. I'll look them up on the manufacturers website tonight.
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I've got a feeling that SATA hard drives don't have jumpers. Make sure you have the the SATA drivers installed aswell. They should be on the CD that came with the motherboard.
 
The drive has pins that look like jumpers as you would find on any other disk.

I'll try and find the MB CD too. Thanks.
 
Maybe a silly question, but what Operating system do you use, and what OS does your dad use? If you're running a FAT32 system and the SATA drive is formated NTFS, that could be your problem right there as FAT32 systems can't read NTFS drives.
 
That One Guy
My dads work computer recently went pop and while fixing it, I have taken out the SATA hard drive and popped it into my computer to salvage his data. When I booted my computer it asked me to configure RAID which i did, then restarted again. This time on boot the drive showed up, and the computer booted as normal from my system drive (I was worried it would try to boot from the SATA drive!).
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You more than likely configured the drive in a RAID1 array, which would explain it disappearing. Basically what your computer is doing is replicating every piece of data on your original hard drive (the other hard drive in the RAID1 array) onto the new, second hard drive you just added. It's for redundancy purposes, but may or may not be helpful to you.

If you want to have two separate drives show up in explorer, you'll want to remove your configured RAID array (but be careful not to delete the data on your original hard drive).
 
Pako
? If you're running a FAT32 system and the SATA drive is formated NTFS, that could be your problem right there as FAT32 systems can't read NTFS drives.
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If Windows is installed on a FAT32 drive, then it can't read NTFS disks? Are you sure?


KM.
 
KieranMurphy
If Windows is installed on a FAT32 drive, then it can't read NTFS disks? Are you sure?


KM.
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They can.

Operating systems which were designed for FAT, generally older operating systems, cannot read NTFS. However XP and so on can definitely read from an NTFS drive regardless of what it's installed on.
 
Burnout
You more than likely configured the drive in a RAID1 array, which would explain it disappearing. Basically what your computer is doing is replicating every piece of data on your original hard drive (the other hard drive in the RAID1 array) onto the new, second hard drive you just added. It's for redundancy purposes, but may or may not be helpful to you.

If you want to have two separate drives show up in explorer, you'll want to remove your configured RAID array (but be careful not to delete the data on your original hard drive).
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There is only one drive on the RAID array.

The other drives are IDE.
 
Unless the drive was already part of a raid array on your dads computer, you completely formated the drive, as you really cant go from a standalone HDD to a raid configuration as it will wipe the drive out. When windows asked you to initialize the disk, it meant there was no filesystem to read as raid is not a filesystem, but a way of joining multiple HDD's.

You essentially just wiped out that sata HDD, regardless of what type of raid it was (0,1,3,5)
 
Hi all,

After letting this sit for a while I had another go yesterday. I changed a few settings in BIOS and the computer seems to recognise the drive now. When I boot it shows up and if I look in the BIOS it shows that I have 3 hard drives. The drive is no longer in a RAID array but is a standalone Sata.

But I still have the same damn problem in windows. :(

The drive does not show up in My Computer or Disk Management.

Any ideas?
 
If you have partition magic or something similar you could see if there's unformatted empty space on the sata disc.
 
I've been looking on the ASUS website. It seems that I have to download a VIA chipset driver so i'll give that a go tonight.
 
Rameses Niblick III Kerplunk Kerplunk Whoops Where's My Thribble
Hi all,

After letting this sit for a while I had another go yesterday. I changed a few settings in BIOS and the computer seems to recognise the drive now. When I boot it shows up and if I look in the BIOS it shows that I have 3 hard drives. The drive is no longer in a RAID array but is a standalone Sata.

But I still have the same damn problem in windows. :(

The drive does not show up in My Computer or Disk Management.

Any ideas?
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SATA drivers aren't built in to Windows. You'll have to find the driver for the controller. To install Windows on a SATA drive, you have to inject the driver with F6 when it asks during the install CD boot. To use a SATA drive as additional, you just have to install the driver into your exising Windows system. Plug-n-Play should have detected the card and asked for a driver. If the SATA card is seen by Windows but the drive isn't, well, that's strange.

Do you have a card in Device Manager with a yellow '?' on it?

BIOS can see the drives and cars without Windows being able to, if Windows drivers are not installed for SATA.
 

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