blitzkrieg1110 Posted February 20, 2007 Posted February 20, 2007 Well I just got a new sata2 seagate 7200.10 320gb hard drive. I booted up the pc with no other hard drives connected to the motherboard except for this sata drive. I have the correct sata power cable and sata connectors installed with the sata connector going to my sata 1 port. When I boot up and go into the bios I go into the hard disk boot priority and I don't see the drive I only see "Bootable Add-in cards" as the only option. I have sata ports 1 and 2 both activated in the bios in the RAID config section. Please help!! I had an IDE drive installed before this and I have removed that drive along with the IDE round cable before I installed the new sata drive. I also tried swapping to a different sata power cable and still no luck. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uneedav8 Posted February 20, 2007 Posted February 20, 2007 You need to make a signature...... In addition to sata 1 and 2 being enabled, make sure you have that setting above on RAID. Once the you have defined the RAID array at the bootup.....it should all be ready to go with the first boot device on hard disk. Make sure you have the jumper on the drive to SATA300. I am assuming your using the Nforce RAID controller. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPDMF Posted February 20, 2007 Posted February 20, 2007 If you are running a single sata drive do not enable RAID and then you will be able see your drive. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzkrieg1110 Posted February 20, 2007 Posted February 20, 2007 well I made a signature last night and its all saved yet its not showing up for some odd reason. EDIT: now its showing up, I don't know why it didn't show up in my first post Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzkrieg1110 Posted February 20, 2007 Posted February 20, 2007 Okay, well I had to enabled the ports under the genie bios setting instead of raid config and it now recognizes the drive in the boot order and i installed windows on it. thanks for the help......sorry about the sig I don't know why it didn't show up in the first post. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
radodrill Posted February 20, 2007 Posted February 20, 2007 Check that you've connected the HDD to an SATAII port; of the 8 SATA ports on the expert, only 4 are SATAII. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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