keith180 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Hi,I just installed a 1tb sata drive as a second drive in my computer. My bios recognizes it and it shows up in device manager. However when I click on "my computer" it is not there. I am using XP sp2 and I have an Nvidia mobo with sata and ide connectors. My primary hard drive is a pata. Do I need drivers and can I install them without a clean install of my OS. The hard drive did not come with an install disk. I also added a sata optical drive at the same time and that is not working either. It spins the disk but nothing shows up. Thanks!Keith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 You need to assign it a drive letter in disk management. Start > run > diskmgmt.msc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stans4 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Hi,I just installed a 1tb sata drive as a second drive in my computer. My bios recognizes it and it shows up in device manager. However when I click on "my computer" it is not there. I am using XP sp2 and I have an Nvidia mobo with sata and ide connectors. My primary hard drive is a pata. Do I need drivers and can I install them without a clean install of my OS. The hard drive did not come with an install disk. I also added a sata optical drive at the same time and that is not working either. It spins the disk but nothing shows up. Thanks!Keith.I believe you've got something more needed other than just assigning a drive letter using the management tool. XP has no SATA controller drivers included with it, so they have to be added, either slip-streamed or after installation. It's the CONTROLLER that needs the drivers not the drive. This would account for your optical drive not showing up. There are no "standard" SATA controllers, so all the drivers are different. Usually a motherboard has an install disk with controller drivers on it, would be the first place to look. Take a look first in the Device Manager for controllers under SCSI and Raid Controllers, Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager. If there's an entry with the yellow triangle icon, it's probably the SATA controller without a driver. SATA controllers show up as SCSI. Go through the Update Drivers procedure to add in the SATA controller driver from your MB disk. Then you can add the drive via the management utility and partition, format it and assign drive letter(s) as needed. You might want to download the latest from the MB site.Some BIOSes have a way to run SATA in a crippled mode so they look like IDEs to the OS, you might look in the BIOS to see if you have such a mode for the SATA controller, just for future diagnostic needs.Stan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 A new hard drive will appear in Device Manager but NOT in My Computer until you format it. If you go into Disk Management in Computer Management, Windows should prompt you to initialize the new disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 @Tripredacus, It will show up by just assigning a drive letter. If you were to click it in explorer you would then be prompted to format it.@stans4, he already said he see it in device manager. Hence he needs no drivers...just like my mothers Dell with a SATA hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith180 Posted January 6, 2011 Author Share Posted January 6, 2011 Thanks to all of you that replied. I will try all of the suggestions and let you know how it works out!Keith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith180 Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share Posted January 10, 2011 (edited) Well I went to computer management but windows did not prompt me to initialize the disk. Clicked around on the toolbar options and did not find any "format disk" options either. The only choice I had was to "create a partition". With nothing to lose at this point I chose to create a partition and lo and behold, it assigned a drive letter and formatted the disk. When the process was over (quite a while with a 1TB disk) I have a fully functioning hard drive. Now I still cannot get my optical drive to work, I installed the software that came on the disk and updated from the Asus website, but still no joy. The drive spins when I put in a disk, LED's flash but nothing happens. Could it be a bad drive at this point? Thanks again for the help with the hard drive, that is what is so great about the online community and forums!Keith. Edited January 10, 2011 by keith180 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I also added a sata optical drive at the same time and that is not working either. It spins the disk but nothing shows up.Is it also recognized by the bios ? If yes, does it show in Disc Management ? If no, check the smaller cable at both ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith180 Posted January 18, 2011 Author Share Posted January 18, 2011 I also added a sata optical drive at the same time and that is not working either. It spins the disk but nothing shows up.Is it also recognized by the bios ? If yes, does it show in Disc Management ? If no, check the smaller cable at both ends.It does show up in disk management and the properties say it is working normally. Troubleshooting is no help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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