Sata hdd (1 Viewer)

[velox]

hi, i just bought a new hard drive. a sata one. I didnt have sata onboard so i bought a sata raid card. I plugged the cable from the hdd into the card. Also i plugged a power connector into the hdd (it seemed i didnt need a power cable adapter). The hdd is recognised at start up, but wont show in my computer. What have i done wrong. I did a "low format" of the hdd and it still wont show up!

 

[sunny]

fdisk it

its a new drive, so it doesn't have any partitions on it.

 

[jm1234567890]

fdisk doesn't exist on winxp any more, it is disk management or use winxp CD

 

[sunny]

my bad

Even now when I run XP on both my laptop and PC I still use my old win98se CD for booting.

 

[velox]

are there any free partitioning tools? do i format it first then partition or vice versa?

 

[sunny]

You can find fdisk on most boot disks. Format after partitioning.

 

[velox]

ah ok thanks

 

[jm1234567890]

use the winME boot floppy for fdisk, lol

 

[velox]

only got xP, can u download fdisk legally?

 

[jm1234567890]

Originally posted by wrx
only got xP, can u download fdisk legally?

as i said b4, you can use you xp CD to create partitions or use disk management...

right click my computer --> manage --> disk management

 

[fatmuscle]

Originally posted by jm1234567890
as i said b4, you can use you xp CD to create partitions or use disk management...

right click my computer --> manage --> disk management

beat me to it!

 

[velox]

if i want to make it the bootable drive how do i do that?

 

[jm1234567890]

Originally posted by wrx
if i want to make it the bootable drive how do i do that?

format it with /S parameter

 

[velox]

i dont recall seeing that when i formatted it, as i did it from my raid utility