Help with setting up SATA hard drive

wildchild

I bought a maxtor sata hard drive and I thought it would show up as an extra drive, but I got nothing.

I want the driv to be used as a normal drive.

I got a ASUS K8NE motherboard, and installed everything that came with it but nothing works.

Do I have to use the BIOS to set it up or something called a RAID.

Cheers

Wildchild

Kintarō Hattori

Hey Man,

Have you gone into Administrative Tools in Control Panel and from there gone to Computer Management? Once there look for Disk Management and you should see your drive there. You should just need to format it.

jozi

You dont need to do anythign with RAID.
Install SATA drivers and windows should reconise the new drive then do what eo980 said

SwampThing

You don't appear to have done much investigation into this yourself.

Have you checked your BIOS settings? Can you see the drive there? Have you made sure that both 'PATA & SATA' is enabled?

Are there motherboard-specific drivers you need?

Chances are, if you're on XP, and you enable SATA in the BIOS....what eo980 said.

wildchild

went into admin tools

no drive there at all, im gonna try and enable it on the BIOS

uberpixie

Also make sure raid is disabled under your sata settings as you are not using it.

wildchild

It is not being recognised.

Basically I want the SATA to work as a seperate drive for storage, iI put it into the port SATA1, installe the drivers from the disc that came with the motherboard.

Could somebody give me a step by step of what to do

I have never used sata before

Cheers

wildchild

Any help??

Please

Besprechen

Is your current drive SATA?

how olds your pc? What O/S?
older BIOS wont recognise a new drive if its a couple of years old so try updating that first.
post more details.

Ri_Nollaig

check the maxtor site for some kinda install unity seagate have a drive install wizard that does it for u id assume maxtor have a similar setup

Endurance Man

I had the same problem few days ago. It was a bios setting that sorted it. Go and fiddle with the bios u should find the missing link

wildchild

I created a driver disk to boot from.

I enabled the SATA boot rom but I am not sure exactly if it worked because there are so many options with RAID over the place.

Endurance Man

I noticed at the top there u said u plugged it into sata1. There should be a sata0 before sata1. That may be your problem

wildchild

I just checked the manual

There isnt any zero

There is 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Nukem

It should be in 1 or 0 depends on the mobo.
I know this sounds like a real dumb question but is it spinning up (is there power goin to it)

Nukem

wildchild

yep there is

I think it has something to do with enabling raid????

blorg

Maxtor have a utility called MaxBlast that will take you through the installation, partitioning, formatting, etc.

http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/maxblast3.htm

Dyr

I use my a sata drive on an asus board and it confused me a bit at first too. You'll need to make sure the bios has picked it up, There might be a seperate ASUS utility during the POST that checks and indentifies SATA drives, you also might need to upgrade your bios to pick up a new drive, Id check maxtors and asus' website for updates/patches if you havent already.

Once the BIOS see's it you might need to install drivers in windows to allow the OS to pick up the drive. XP might not pick up a SATA drive by itself

Nukem

Ha ha - wrote out a list of things to do and accidently closed the page. What they said ^^

wildchild

hey bambi

I am not familiar with some of your technical terms.

Could you simplify please.

Cheers

wildchild

still having problems

I got a message from an ASUS staff they told me to make a disk that boots the start then you have to enable a boot rom and then xp will give you a setup from there.

But the disk I created doesnt boot and there is no option on my bios saying to enable th boot rom .

Also this sata is a pain in the ass

Boy

Wildchild

jozi

No offence to you mate but you must be a total noob!
Put the windows setup disc in the pc and boot (make sure bios is set to boot from cd)
pretty much right at the start of setup it asks to press F6 if you need to install any aditional SCSI drivers, press F6
Then on that floppy you have there should be the drivers needed.
Follow setup and it should prompt you with a list of drivers on the floppy, just load them all 1 at a time and windows will figure out which to use (this floppy prob also came with your mobo)
That done it "should" install windows and you should be sorted.
After that you will love SATA

Mutant_Fruit

1) Stick HD into computer.
2) Connect power cables/data cables.
3) Boot into bios.
4) Check if drive is listed in bios.
5) If drive isn't listed in bios, you've connected it wrong. Double check connections.
6) If drive still isn't listed, its dead.
7) If drive is listed in bios, then boot into windows.
8) Go to the administrative tools and check if the drive exists there like was mentioned earlier.
9) If drive isn't listed there, download SATA drivers from your mobo manufacturers site and install them.
10) Reboot.
11) Repeat step 8.
12) If drive is not listed, try different drivers.
13) IF drive is listed, then rightclick on it and partition/format it as needed.

If you can't get it to appear in the bios, don't bother with any step beyond step 5.