RAID Problem ......

[-=DoW=- The Fan]

Guys, I need some help.

Got a Customer PC today to fix. It has a SATA Drive in it, which I put in my PC to do a check.

The Harddrive isnt showing up in my system.

My system boots up normally, and even shows in BIOS that the SATA Drive is there, only windows doesnt show it, consequently I have no way of checking the drive.
I installed my SATA Device Drivers. What else can be wrong. When I put the drive back in the original PC, it still boots up, so I know the drive isnt broken.

Please help :-)

[-=DoW=- SledgeHammer]

You have to go into the Drive Manager and "enable" it.

Right-click on My Computer, click Manage, select Disk Management, find the drive and right click on it in the lower frame.

Careful though, from there you can format, partition, etc.

As long as you have the correct Windows Raid drivers installed, it should show up there.

Curious though, a Raid normally/always consists of more then one drive? 0,1,5

Now... If you aren't trying to see a Raid, you should make sure that you have the SATA chipset drivers installed. You still need to go in and "enable" the drive, since windows cannot see it until the driver loads though. Either way, you need to go into Disk Management and work with it.

[-=DoW=- resqman]

was this drive originally installed as part of a raid? In the original system?

Like Sledge says, never heard of a single drive raid

If it was that would explain why you system doesnt show it

More info please!!!!!

[-=DoW=- The Fan]

When I use my SIS Raid Utilities, it cant find a drive to "RAID"

It says

"SIS 180 RAID Controller 1" but shows nothing :-(

[-=DoW=- Hean]

Don't the drives have to be identical, to do a RAID???

[-=DoW=- resqman]

No theydon't. But the raid will default to the size of the smaller one.

Say if you are using 1 300g and 1 120g then in raid 0 the drive will be seen as a 240g hd. Or in raid 1 as a 120g hd

[-=DoW=- SledgeHammer]

1 drive = NO raid, that's why it doesn't see it.

[Acedeal]

1 drive = NO raid, that's why it doesn't see it.
Correct-
1 drive = a SATA IDE drive is all :)

[hagrus]

You will have to put that 2nd hard drive in your computer along with the 1st. You might have to go into your raid utility (in your BIOS if you have an onboard raid controller) and enable the raid function on the SATA ports that you have the hard drives attached to. When you reboot you will probably see the array get detected by the raid controller and then all should be good. Without the raid array being detected you will not be able to see the contents of those drives.

[JollyMan]

I kind of had the same problem. When I started I had no clue what a RAID was. I pretty much decided for practical reasons having a raid would be better for a mainframe of a network computer not my gaming machine.

[-=DoW=- The Fan]

Thanks for the help Folks. None of the above helped, so I just used my USB stick (Lots of lovely programs) and recovery console (getting good at that) and cleaned it that way instead.

Had a bad dose of Zlob, SpySheriff and something else. Used RC to delete hp**** (Nothing to do with Hewlett)

Guess Ill have to get my self familiarized with RAID and SATA (Like buy my own SATA Drive) :-(

Anyways, Customer PC fixed and paid. Thanks for your help