Re: SATA drive issues

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Did you do the F6 floppy disk install for the SATA driver when you installed
the operating system? Another thing to check is your BIOS settings for the
SATA drive.

"HillBillyBuddhist" wrote:

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> "jr1414" <jr1414@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >I am currently running MCE 2005 with an Abit IC7-G Max II MB and am
> > using an IDE drive as my boot drive without any problems. My problem
> > is that I'm trying to use a SATA drive of of the MB as my main storage
> > and it is not popping up in the My Computer window. It shows up in
> > the bios, and it also shows in Device Manager, but I can't get it to
> > show up in My Computer. Can anyone help me with this issue?
> >
>
>
> Have you initialized, partitioned and formatted the drive in Disk
> Management? It won't be available for use until you do.
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> I was just trying to help.
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