Re: 2 SATA drives and 1 IDE drive Not Recognized

John:
It may very well be that the lack of auxiliary SATA controller drivers may
not be at the root of Jeff's problem although from his description of the
problem it certainly sounds like it. When you say that (apparently) you did
not need to install such auxiliary SATA controller drivers, were you using
the *identical* make & model of Jeff's motherboard? You do understand, I
assume, that this is a capability of the motherboard, e.g., in some
motherboards the SATA controller drivers (at least as it involves a non-RAID
configuration) are integrated within the MB, while in other motherboards a
user must install an auxiliary SATA controller driver (the infamous F6
routine) for the system to recognize the existence of a SATA HDD.
Anna


"John" <seetheplane@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I don't know why you would need drivers unless you installed an SATA
controler
card that is not built into the Mother Board. I just installed a couple of
them
myself a week ago and had no problem with the BIOS seeing the SATA drives. I
just stuck the new drive in on the new motherboard and booted to the Win-XP
CD
and I was on my way . . .

After Installing Win-XP and all the hardware devices - I then installed the
drivers from the CD that came with the MB.

Like you said . . . Let us know how it goes.

On 7 Mar 2007 15:20:33 -0800, "Jeff Y." <schematherapy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Anna and John John for your suggestions. It seems that both of
you agree that somehow the SATA controller drivers have not been
successfully installed. I'll be able to try these suggestions on
Friday and will update you on whether they work out.


On Mar 6, 9:54 pm, "Anna" <myn...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jeff:
The basic problem (at least as it seems to me) is that you've been
unsuccessful in installing the SATA controller drivers onto your PATA
(IDE)
HDD. Why you've been unsuccessful in doing so I don't know. Have you
carefully reviewed your motherboard's user guide dealing with whatever
sections relate to the installation of SATA HDDs with particular emphasis
on
the installation of SATA controller drivers?

In one of your previous postings I believe you mentioned that the
motherboard in question is a DFI model. If that is so, have you been in
touch with DFI's tech support re this issue? It might be worthwhile to do
so
if you're still unable to resolve this problem.
Anna

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

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The BIOS can see all 3 drives at bootup.

I don't think there are any jumpers on SATA drives. I had a Microsoft
Certified Technician come in yesterday, and he said that he had set up
the "ribbon" cable and jumpers correctly for the IDE drive to boot.
(He couldn't fix the problem either and gave up after 6 hours.)

I haven't tried booting with the utility disk (Data Lifeguard). I
located the utility disk on WD's website. Do I use the DOS or Windows
utility? How do I use the disk to boot?

Why can I see all drives in Disk Management when I install Windows on
the SATA drive, but not see either of the SATA drives when I install
Windows on the IDE drive?

On Mar 6, 1:59 pm, John <seethepl...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Dose you BIOS still see them at bootup?

Are the jumpers on the drives set correctly? (CS, master, slave)

Have you tried booting with the hard drive's utility disk (Max Blast,
Data
Lifeguard, Seatools etc)?

On 6 Mar 2007 07:30:10 -0800, "Jeff Y." <schemather...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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

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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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