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October 21st 04, 02:06 PM
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Problems with SATA drives and XP
Help!
Have just bought new PC (well components of and assembled). Has a 81PE775Pro MB and to Seagate HDD (80g & 120g). Set up, checked bios/cmos set up - everything there. Loaded XP Pro checked everything through the Device Manager - all OK. Went to Explorer and the 2nd HDD is not there... checked to make sure nothing was disabled, no conflicts, etc... but XP refuses to see the 120g drive - even though it's listed in the device manager. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Wes. 
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October 21st 04, 02:19 PM
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In message , GEM
writes Help! Have just bought new PC (well components of and assembled). Has a 81PE775Pro MB and to Seagate HDD (80g & 120g). Set up, checked bios/cmos set up - everything there. Loaded XP Pro checked everything through the Device Manager - all OK. Went to Explorer and the 2nd HDD is not there... checked to make sure nothing was disabled, no conflicts, etc... but XP refuses to see the 120g drive - even though it's listed in the device manager. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Wes. You did format and partition it? Can Disk Management see it? Regards -- Peter R Cook
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October 21st 04, 10:47 PM
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"Peter R Cook" wrote in message ... In message , GEM writes Help! Have just bought new PC (well components of and assembled). Has a 81PE775Pro MB and to Seagate HDD (80g & 120g). Set up, checked bios/cmos set up - everything there. Loaded XP Pro checked everything through the Device Manager - all OK. Went to Explorer and the 2nd HDD is not there... checked to make sure nothing was disabled, no conflicts, etc... but XP refuses to see the 120g drive - even though it's listed in the device manager. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Wes. You did format and partition it? Can Disk Management see it? Regards -- Peter R Cook I was distracted when setting it up, but remember formatting and partitioning at least ONE of them... Disk Management sees C: in the top section only, but in the bottom section has both listed - although the second drive is UNALLOCATED as opposed to the NTFS HEALTHY indicated on the drive above. Would I be right in assuming that the second disk in unformatted and therefore unseen? Wes.
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October 21st 04, 11:53 PM
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In message , GEM
writes "Peter R Cook" wrote in message ... In message , GEM writes Help! Have just bought new PC (well components of and assembled). Has a 81PE775Pro MB and to Seagate HDD (80g & 120g). Set up, checked bios/cmos set up - everything there. Loaded XP Pro checked everything through the Device Manager - all OK. Went to Explorer and the 2nd HDD is not there... checked to make sure nothing was disabled, no conflicts, etc... but XP refuses to see the 120g drive - even though it's listed in the device manager. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Wes. You did format and partition it? Can Disk Management see it? Regards -- Peter R Cook I was distracted when setting it up, but remember formatting and partitioning at least ONE of them... Disk Management sees C: in the top section only, but in the bottom section has both listed - although the second drive is UNALLOCATED as opposed to the NTFS HEALTHY indicated on the drive above. Would I be right in assuming that the second disk in unformatted and therefore unseen? Wes. C: is formatted and partitioned The Unallocated drive is not formatted or partitioned. Explorer will therefore ignore it. Simply use Disk Management to create a partition on the drive and format it. Then explorer will see them. (I think right click on the drive brings up the relevant context menu) Regards -- Peter R Cook
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October 22nd 04, 01:33 AM
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"GEM" wrote in message ... I was distracted when setting it up, but remember formatting and partitioning at least ONE of them... Disk Management sees C: in the top section only, but in the bottom section has both listed - although the second drive is UNALLOCATED as opposed to the NTFS HEALTHY indicated on the drive above. Would I be right in assuming that the second disk in unformatted and therefore unseen? Right-click on the second drive and format it. It should then be seen in Windows Explorer, etc., and it'll then be usable.
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October 22nd 04, 02:49 PM
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"GEM" wrote in message ... Help! Have just bought new PC (well components of and assembled). Has a 81PE775Pro MB and to Seagate HDD (80g & 120g). Set up, checked bios/cmos set up - everything there. Loaded XP Pro checked everything through the Device Manager - all OK. Went to Explorer and the 2nd HDD is not there... checked to make sure nothing was disabled, no conflicts, etc... but XP refuses to see the 120g drive - even though it's listed in the device manager. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Wes. Thank you all very much - you were right, it just needed formatting! What a bonehead... Wes.
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October 22nd 04, 03:20 PM
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"GEM" wrote in message ... Thank you all very much - you were right, it just needed formatting! What a bonehead... Wes. LOL!!
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