re: Only 1 of 2 SATA hard drives is showing Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 4:58 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by janiklitalien (17 messages posted) Ok so I'm not sure of what I did but now both are showing... Thanks everyone, although I got no answer, I could feeeeel your moral support. Cheers ! On Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 2:00 pm, janiklitalien wrote: >Hi Everyone, about a year ago, I bought a GXT Serial-ATA Two port PCI adaptor as >I wanted to add 2 more hard drives. > >At the time, I added 2x20 Gb IDE drives and they worked ok. > >Now I've gotten my hands on 2x250 GB SATA drives (which are the starting point of >my new Quad-core machine but I'm getting it piece-by-piece due to spousal resistance >) > >So I hook up the Drives onto the pci card, start the whole thing up and disk management >sees (and is currently formatting) only one of 2 drives. > >I've refreshed and re-refreshed and it's not seeing #2 > >The BIOS sees both on startup as primary master 1 & 2 if that's got anything to do >with it and the ALI Raid setup also sees both but I'm not sure of how that thing >works anyway. > >So why is the system not seeing SATA HD # 2 ??? > >My PC is a > >ASUS P4 VP Mx >2 GB DDR >P4 3.0 > >Thanks in advance ! Written in response to: Only 1 of 2 SATA hard drives is showing (janiklitalien: Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 2:00 pm) Responses to this message: re: Only 1 of 2 SATA hard drives is showing (Johnb33: Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 5:54 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Only 1 of 2 SATA hard drives is showing (janiklitalien: Sun, Dec 28, 2008, 2:00 pm) re: Only 1 of 2 SATA hard drives is showing (janiklitalien: Sun, Dec 28, 2008, 4:58 pm) re: Only 1 of 2 SATA hard drives is showing (Johnb33: Sun, Dec 28, 2008, 5:54 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum