So yeah I got my new system running and amazingly nothing went wrong...except it doesn't seem to be able to detect my seagate 320 mb hard drive. During the windows XP install I saw both unpartioned drives and choose to install xp on the raptor, and thats the last I saw of the seagate 7200.10 80 gig hard drive. I thought these things were automatically detected? Whats the next step in me getting my computer to detect it?
SATA hard drive detection issue
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You can go to BIOS to check if you can enable it somehow.
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yes or run the hard drive utility from the RUN process. I forget the code you have to type to get to it.. but you need to partition the drive before windows will recognize it.
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Ya, I am still looking for the run command.
arg I knew I shouldn't have left the drive unpartitioned ( I did with my WD raptor as well but I guess the install of xp on it partitioned it )
Anyways in the hardware device check I see the seagate drive, it just doesn't have a letter assigned to it so I can put stuff ( real lamens terms here
)So How would I go about partitioning it now that I installed windows xp?
Nice thankyou so much i got it online! I put it the letter S for seagate. BTW I did the partition in NTSF and left the allocation unit size to default ( should I have selected the max number? )
Arg why can't I change the Raptor drive letter
its left at CNo problem.
Shouldn't the main hard drive, I assume your Raptor, be C?
Sometimes when I reformat I pick an allocation unit, such as 4096, and sometimes I don't. I'm not sure if it has a big effect, but the both times I've done it without selecting and selecting an allocation unit size, I saw no difference.
Shouldn't the main hard drive, I assume your Raptor, be C?
Sometimes when I reformat I pick an allocation unit, such as 4096, and sometimes I don't. I'm not sure if it has a big effect, but the both times I've done it without selecting and selecting an allocation unit size, I saw no difference.
yeah my main drive is the raptor and xp set it to C I guess and i was wondering if i could change the letter. No biggie really...just would rather prefer the letter R
Er also it said formatting the seagate HD and that took forever...did I even need to format it since nothing was already on it?
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