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02-11-2008
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| | Second SATA drive is not recognized I installed a second SATA drive in my system, but Vista does not recognize it. When I look in the Control Panel, Device Manager, Disk Drives, it shows the two drives. I also see both drives if I enter the BIOS settings. Windows Explorer does shows only the original drive. The BIOS setting for the SATA drives is AHCI. Do I need to format it? if so, where do I go to format it? Any ideas? --thx, Joseph |
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02-11-2008
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| | Re: Second SATA drive is not recognized [ additional iformation] Additional information. Here's what I see in the Control Panel, Device Settings, under IDE-ATA/ATAPI controllers IDE-ATA/ATAPI controllers ATA Channel 0 ATA Channel 1 IDE Channel IDE Channel IDE Channel IDE Channel IDE Channel IDE Channel IDE Channel (yellow exclamation mark) IDE Channel (yellow exclamation mark) Intel(R) ICH9 6 Port STA AHCI Controller - 2922 Standard Dual Channel PCIIDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCIIDE Controller If I click on the yellow exclamation mark, I get the following: This device cannot start. (Code 10) Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution available. If I click on check for solutions, I get nothing. I disconnected the second SATA drive, and I was still getting the same message. |
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02-11-2008
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| | Re: Second SATA drive is not recognized You can go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. Select the disk, and initalize it and format it in there. -- Dustin Harper dharper@xxxxxx http://www.VistaRIP.com | Vista Resource & Information Page "JosephMo" <josephmouhanna@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:70a8fcca-f79d-4bf6-a571-cbd018f19611@xxxxxx Quote: >I installed a second SATA drive in my system, but Vista does not > recognize it. When I look in the Control Panel, Device Manager, Disk > Drives, it shows the two drives. I also see both drives if I enter the > BIOS settings. Windows Explorer does shows only the original drive. > > The BIOS setting for the SATA drives is AHCI. > > Do I need to format it? if so, where do I go to format it? > > Any ideas? > > --thx, Joseph |
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02-11-2008
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| | Re: Second SATA drive is not recognized On Feb 10, 11:00*pm, "Dustin Harper" <dhar...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > You can go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > > Disk Management. Select the disk, and initalize it and format it in there. > > -- > Dustin Harper > dhar...@xxxxxx://www.VistaRIP.com| Vista Resource & Information Page > > "JosephMo" <josephmouha...@xxxxxx> wrote in message > > news:70a8fcca-f79d-4bf6-a571-cbd018f19611@xxxxxx > > > Quote: > >I installed a second SATA drive in my system, but Vista does not > > recognize it. When I look in the Control Panel, Device Manager, Disk > > Drives, it shows the two drives. I also see both drives if I enter the > > BIOS settings. Windows Explorer does shows only the original drive. Quote: > > The BIOS setting for the SATA drives is AHCI. Quote: > > Do I need to format it? if so, where do I go to format it? Quote: > > Any ideas? Quote: > > --thx, Joseph- Hide quoted text - > - Show quoted text - this is something that Windows Explorer, or the Properties Page, or the Device Manager should have allowed me to take care of (or should have recognized that I added a disk and provided an option to format it). Joseph |
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02-11-2008
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| | Re: Second SATA drive is not recognized Did you create a partition and format it with the Disk Management tool and/or any tool the drive might have come with? Yes, new drives must be partitioned and formatted before Windows can use them. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] rgharper@xxxxxx * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/ * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/ "JosephMo" <josephmouhanna@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:70a8fcca-f79d-4bf6-a571-cbd018f19611@xxxxxx Quote: >I installed a second SATA drive in my system, but Vista does not > recognize it. When I look in the Control Panel, Device Manager, Disk > Drives, it shows the two drives. I also see both drives if I enter the > BIOS settings. Windows Explorer does shows only the original drive. > > The BIOS setting for the SATA drives is AHCI. > > Do I need to format it? if so, where do I go to format it? > > Any ideas? > > --thx, Joseph |
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02-11-2008
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| | Re: Second SATA drive is not recognized "JosephMo" <josephmouhanna@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:f682ab2c-cb48-42e8-80fd-f34978eaa963@xxxxxx On Feb 10, 11:00 pm, "Dustin Harper" <dhar...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > You can go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > > Disk Management. Select the disk, and initalize it and format it in there. > > -- > Dustin Harper > dhar...@xxxxxx://www.VistaRIP.com| Vista Resource & Information > Page > > "JosephMo" <josephmouha...@xxxxxx> wrote in message > > news:70a8fcca-f79d-4bf6-a571-cbd018f19611@xxxxxx > > > Quote: > >I installed a second SATA drive in my system, but Vista does not > > recognize it. When I look in the Control Panel, Device Manager, Disk > > Drives, it shows the two drives. I also see both drives if I enter the > > BIOS settings. Windows Explorer does shows only the original drive. Quote: > > The BIOS setting for the SATA drives is AHCI. Quote: > > Do I need to format it? if so, where do I go to format it? Quote: > > Any ideas? Quote: > > --thx, Joseph- Hide quoted text - > - Show quoted text - this is something that Windows Explorer, or the Properties Page, or the Device Manager should have allowed me to take care of (or should have recognized that I added a disk and provided an option to format it). Joseph Why, when there is a facility already? -- Mike Hall - MVP http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx |
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