On Jul 7, 5:46 pm, "Bob Harris" <rharris270[SPAM]@hotmail.com> wrote:
> First, is the new hard drive detected by the POST (power on test)? This is
> the black screen with white characters that you might see immediately after
> powering on the PC (or doing a warm boot). It is well below the level of
> windows.
>
> If the POST just wizzes by, go into the BIOS setup and disable an option
> like "quick boot'. For the moment you want to see as much as possible.
> Also, look for a quick message about hitting some key to see details during
> the POST.
>
> In any event, does the POST see the new drive? If not, you may need to go
> into the BIOS and configure something that sounds like turning on the SATA
> controller.
>
> Another possible problem is that the SATA controller may also be a RAID
> controller. If so, you might need to create a RAID array containing just
> the one disk, or chose an option like JBOD (just a bunch of disks). In my
> motherboard manaul the details I needed to configure the RAID controller
> where hidden on page 130 or so.
>
> On my ASUS motherboard I had to play with the BIOS and also with the RAID
> setup (not in the BIOS, but seen during the power on test, very briefly,
> after the memory test). Then, I was able to see the hard drive with the
> Seagate Tools (Seatools), partition and format the disk. Until that point,
> nothing could see the hard drive, not GHOST floppy, not FDISK, not XP,
> nothing.
>
> Now when I boot I see the "Fastrak" RAID controller sensing the drive and
> telling me that it is functional.
>
> Of course, XP still could not see the hard drive.
>
> To get XP to see it I had to install a special driver that came with the
> motherboard (on CD, but I used the updated version I downloaded from ASUS).
> Note: The drive is associated with the disk controller, not with the hard
> drive. Since this was to be my boot disk, I had to install XP using the F6
> option to load the driver. In your case you should not need to re-install
> XP with F6, since XP is already (happily?) installed on another drive.
> Instead, you probably need to install the XP drivers, as you would for any
> other hardware for which XP has no default drivers. But, first be sure that
> the BIOS and POST can see the SATA drive, or XP has no chance.
My system sees the drive, it just thinks it's a SCSI CDROM instead of
a hard disk drive. I saw a tech note on Maxtor's website about it and
it just told me to ask Gigabyte tech support if they've got a fix for
it. I already have one SATA drive in this PC. Why would it not detect
the second one? Very weird.