i have a toshiba qosmio g25 that i just placed 2 new 80 gig sata hard drives in and planned on doing a fresh install of vista ultimate 32 bit on the unit. BUT it will not recognize the drives installed. any ideas if there is a special driver i need or something i can adjust in the bios for it to be native? also0 does anyone know if this will cause problems with drivers for the system
Have you checked your BIOS first to see if *it* recognizes the drives? You may have some SATA channels disabled from the factory / OEM / builder because nothing was installed....
SanDisk Ultra SDSSDHII-960G-G25 960 GB SATA III SSD (System)
Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1 256GB SATA III SSD (User Tree)
2 * Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA II Mech. HD
Seagate ST1500DL001-9VT15L Barracuda 7200.12 1.5 TB S
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Thermaltake Black Widow TX TR2 850W 80+ Bronze Semi-Mod ATX
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ThermalTake Level 10 GT (Black)
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Corsair H100 (CPU, dual 140 mm fans on radiator) + Air (2 *
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Logitech G15 (gen 2)
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Lenovo
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INTEL Cherryvill 520 Series SSDSC2CW180A 180 GB SSD
Have you checked your BIOS first to see if *it* recognizes the drives? You may have some SATA channels disabled from the factory / OEM / builder because nothing was installed....
I have checked the bios and it does see both hard drives installed. i have also tried to set up the raid and install the raid drivers by pressing the proper keys during the windows installation. I also tried to use a single hard drive to install in case the raid drivers were not working properly. still no luck.
