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  1. Jan 29th, 2009, 01:40 PM #1
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    Problems with second sata drive

    Hi All,
    You will have to forgive me for this but hardware aint my thing.


    I have an ASUS A8n-SLI deluxe motherboard and decided to add a secondsata drive.

    I installed the drive, then booted up my machine.

    Windows detected the new hardware and all seemed great until I opened My Computer and found that it was not there.

    I had a look under device manager and it indicated that the second drive was there and working correctly.

    I then rebooted again and checked the BIOS.
    The bios had picked up the seconddrive as the second sata master.

    Whats going on ?

    Why can't I get to this new drive and why does XP say its there in device manager ?

    TIA

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  2. Jan 29th, 2009, 04:19 PM #2
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    Re: Problems with second sata drive

    What type of cables of you using for the SATA drive?
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  3. Jan 30th, 2009, 12:08 AM #3
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    Re: Problems with second sata drive

    have you tried going into disk management and initializing the disk ?


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  4. Jan 30th, 2009, 03:46 AM #4
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    Re: Problems with second sata drive

    Quote Originally Posted by dark_shadow
    have you tried going into disk management and initializing the disk ?
    Or, if it's properly initiated, can you see in disk management if Windows has designated a drive letter?
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  6. Jan 30th, 2009, 10:34 AM #5
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    Re: Problems with second sata drive

    You need to initialize and format the drive. Right-click on My Computer, choose Manage. Then click on Disk Management. You will see the new drive listed there. Just initialize and format it.
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