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i just set up a SATA raid config with 2 36gb raptors. I installed XP pro fine and now i am trying to install an IDE slave drive(200gb Hitachi deskstar). With a little messing around, i was finally able to get my bios to recognize the hard drive, but windows will not. Can someone tell me what i need to do to get this to work? The drive is already formatted and does not show up under disk management.
Also, if the drive is formatted to FAT32, XP will likely not be able to read it. Im sure you know about that, but just in case :)
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The drive is not partitioned, and it is formatted in NTFS. I had been running it as a storage drive before i switched over to SATA raid and it worked fine.
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Joe, unless things have changed recently for Windows to see a hard drive there must be at least one partition on it.
For a little more info. go to;
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2Fdirectory%2Fworldwide%2Fen-gb%2Fpartitioning.asp
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to joedirt and richard- a hdd must be partitioned befor one can ever format it. It can be one partition or several.
"With a little messing around" explain ?? it might be the problem if it was in the bios setup.
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"Did you partition the Hitachi before you formatted it?"
- heh -
Yes, at some point the drive had to have been partitioned or format would have been impossible
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I finally figured it out, i had to enable the raid bootrom then for some reason it worked. However, it tells me in windows that my secondary drive is drive 0, and the my raided drives are drive 1....im not sure if this matters, but at any rate i got it working. I guess when I said that it wasnt "partitioned" i meant it was only set up to be one big 200gb drive. But anyone knows that i had to partition it at some point in order for it to have worked in windows like i had mentioned.....don't know why some people have to get so technical. :) j/k
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Not technical, JoeDirt, just accurate. "The drive is not partitioned, and it is formatted in NTFS" is at best a misleading statement, and suggests that you don't know what you're talking about. It is your responsibility to communicate clearly.
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For clarity sake - another piece of misinformation;
"Also, if the drive is formatted to FAT32, XP will likely not be able to read it."
The total opposite is true. XP can read FAT32 drives, but FAT32 cannot "see" NTFS drives without a third party utility.
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