My computer is not recognizing my new SATA drive..

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Hey guys I bought a new 250 GB WD 16 MB Cache SATA hard drive the other day and installed it today. I don't know why but my computer is not recognizing it. When I go into My Computer it's not showing it in there so I can format it. Is there something I need to do? I'm using an ABIT IC-7 MAX 3 mobo.
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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

chances are, if you have no other SATA drives, you need to enable your SATA controller in the bios. Should be in the integrated peripherals section.
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FroGGer · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:04 am Post subject:

That's the problem I had a RAID 0 with two SATA drives (raptors) on SATA 1 and SATA 2. I am trying to use this drive on SATA 3 . I have already enabled the SATA in the bios. both SATA 1 and 2, and SATA 3-6. I checked the power supply to the drive already, but I guess I may have to check it again, because that's all there is to it, right?
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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

ok...wait....

Explain your current setup first, minus the new drive......just wanna get the facts out before i start thinking about hte wrong thing...lol
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FroGGer · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:59 pm Post subject:

I had two 36GB raptors in RAID 0 and 1 80 GB IDE HDD. IC-7 mAX3 mobo w/ 1 GB memory.
I installed the new SATA drive on the 3rd SATA channel. there are 6 SATA channels in all. 2 on the southbridge and 4 on the board
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

Make sure your BIOS is set to Enhanced Mode for SATA. Then, in the Onboard PCI Device menu in your BIOS, make sure Serial ATA Controller is enabled......this is the setting to turn on or off the 4-channel Silicon Image SATA chip.

You will also have needed to install the Silicon Image SATA RAID driver off of your driver CD for the mobo, otherwise SATA ports 3-6 will not function in Windows.
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FroGGer · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:04 am Post subject:

I already have the SATA set to enhanced mode. Right under it though, you have to set the mode. I have it set for "RAID" to run my RAID 0 array.
SATA in enables in onboard PCI device. I got t\hat it runs the 4 channels from the manual. It was enabled already.

I installed RAID drivers when I pushed F6 during the windows install. Is that the same driver? Or is the one on the disc a different one. Actually the ones I installed during the windows install are from the intel website and they are for the southbridge. So there is a separate driver for the last 4 independent SATA channels?
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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

Yes im sure there is. Both northbridge and south bridge SATA controllers have different drivers.
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FroGGer · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:01 pm Post subject:

maybe that's the problem. I'm a little slow these days.
thanks,
i'll get back to you.
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2old2care · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject:

ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

yeah brain fart.....you know what i meant.....

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2old2care · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:02 pm Post subject:

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FroGGer · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject:

Ok so I ran the low level format in the raid screen at boot up after I installed the drivers. The SATA RAID software for channels 3-6 recognize the drive, but it still doesn't show up in My Computer. What gives?
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2old2care · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:00 am Post subject:

Well...you did a low level format. Which is extremely rare to need now days.
So now you need to setup the drive partition(s) and do a high level (regular) format, so you can use the drive.
You can do this from Windows disk management, or use third party software such as volume manager or WD's tools.
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FroGGer · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:48 am Post subject:

i'm not familiar with windows disk management.
is it the device manager disk drives folder? That was not working for me yesterday.
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2old2care · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:12 am Post subject:

Right click "My Computer", select "manage", and it's in that list. Right clicking is used quite a bit in there.
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FroGGer · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:51 pm Post subject:

OK guys, I got it working thanks for your help.
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