[RESOLVED] New machine doesn't see second drive

[Reverend]

I have a new box with i975, 12 gig and 2 x 1 terabyte SATA drives in it. The boot drive is recognized and I've put Win 7 64 bit OS on it - fine.

But there's no mention of the second drive. Everything appears to be connected correctly to the P6T mobo - do I have to 'enable' the second one in the BIOS or something?

Thanks - rev

[photolady]

Where is it not reading the drive? In the BIOS or Windows? If Windows check disk management and see if it shows in there.

[SuperSparks]

You have to partition and format the drive before it will show in My Computer. You can do that in Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management. Right-click on the unpartitioned space of the new drive and you'll see an option to partition it. Once partitioned right-click again and you'll get a "Create logical drive" option, which will bring up a dialog with the formatting options. I'd recommend that you choose an Extended partition type, that way all your drive letters will be kept in order.

How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks

[Reverend]

>Where is it not reading the drive?
It's not reading it everywhere. I ran the Troubleshooting option and it might be that the second drive doesn't have a driver. I'll get back to you on that.

Where is Disk Management in Win 7!?

[Reverend]

I found Disk Management, it isn't visible unless you're displaying Small Icons. Anyway, the second drive does not show up there, so I can't format it.

[Reverend]

Ok, I found the problem. There are two banks of SATA sockets, the assembler had used two JMicron SATA connections instead of the 'regular' normal ones. The JMicron sockets appear to be something to do with duping or backing up a drive.

Once I changed all the SATA's to the other bank of sockets, they all showed up and it's formatting as we speak.

Thanks!

[SuperSparks]

Good news

For future reference, you my just need to enable the other bank of SATA ports in the BIOS to get them to work.