Ack help, so far SATA is an alien form!

geeknlingerie · May 19, 2006, 05:33 AM

I am quite familiar with IDE drives and the Bios and jumper settings, but trying to add one simple extra drive to a new SATA motherboard has me in fits.

In 'My Computer" it does not see the drive
In Properties and Devices it sees it clearly.

What the heck have I done wrong?

mkk · May 19, 2006, 10:09 PM

You probably haven't partitioned/formatted it. Start up the disk management (diskmgmt.msc).

niceguyrichy · May 19, 2006, 11:35 PM

system specs please

have you installed sata drivers for it?

May 19, 2006, 05:33 AM	#1
geeknlingerie DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Ack help, so far SATA is an alien form! I am quite familiar with IDE drives and the Bios and jumper settings, but trying to add one simple extra drive to a new SATA motherboard has me in fits. In 'My Computer" it does not see the drive In Properties and Devices it sees it clearly. What the heck have I done wrong?

May 19, 2006, 10:09 PM	#2
mkk Cthulhu/Dagon 2012 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Gefle, Sweden Posts: 4,489 Rep Power: 132 System Specs	You probably haven't partitioned/formatted it. Start up the disk management (diskmgmt.msc).