Re: 2 SATA drives and 1 IDE drive Not Recognized

No. The 2 SATA drives are completely missing there. Suggestions? I'm
getting desperate.


On Mar 6, 1:20 am, John <seethepl...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Can Widows "see" the drives in . . . Administrative Tools/Computer
Management/Disk management . . . ?

On 5 Mar 2007 13:49:45 -0800, "Jeff Y." <schemather...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Bad news... I changed the boot drive to the IDE hard drive (instead of
the SATA drive) in the BIOS. I then tried to install Windows on the
IDE drive from the Windows CD-ROM, and pressed F6 to load the newest
SATA drivers. Windows began the installation with no problems,
including copying files. However, when setup rebooted to continue the
installation, I got a DOS-type screen saying that, because of an
error, it could not continue Windows normally, and offered me the
choice of going into safe mode or trying the last good configuration.
I tried to go into safe mode: it loaded the safe mode drivers, then
rebooted itself before actually getting to the safe mode Windows log-
in screen. This happened twice. The same thing happened when I tried
the Last Known Good Configuration.

I then tried to install Windows again on the IDE drive without the
SATA drivers. The installation completed perfectly. But Windows could
not "see" the other two drives as even existing. I checked My Computer
and the Disk Managament console. They only listed one hard drive (the
IDE drive) instead of 3.

What can I try next? I can't figure out what's going wrong.

On Mar 3, 11:45 pm, "Jeff Y." <schemather...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for all the help. I'll be able to try it out on Monday.

On Mar 3, 10:18 am, "dobey" <a...@xxxxx> wrote:

"Jeff Y." <schemather...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

news:1172900591.017937.278900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks for the suggestions. I understand everything except: "you can
then format XP off the SATA." Can you explain in a little more detail
what that means and how to do it?

After you boot into XP which is installed on the IDE drive, go into
Administrative tools > Computer management > Disk management then select the
SATA drive and format it. This will remove all of the files on the HDD in
the process.

I hope you have labeled you drives/partitions so you know which one is
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