Hi eveyone
Just built a new Intel Core 2 Duo based system with ASUS P5B Delux mobo. I installed a new Seagate 320G SATA II HDD as a main drive and recycled an old Maxtor 60G IDE for extra storage.
Unfortunately the HDD came without a floppy with SATA drivers and I did not make one in advance. On the first boot up both drives seemed to have been recognised in the BIOS, with the default SATA drive configuration as IDE. However when partitioning, only 130G of available 320G were recognised on the Seagate. I nevertheless proceeded to install windows XP (SP1/2) and once completed the system shows I have only one 60G HDD. Seagate just gone AWOL.
The strange thing though is that when you go into the drive Properties/Hardware, both drives are shown as 'working properly'
So, what do I need to do now?
1. Reinstall Windows, and install that SATA Drivers in the process? If thats the case, would the Intel ICH8 32bit RAID/AHCI driver disk (which I subsequently created using the supplied Asus utility) fit the purpose? Once installed, would simply configuring SATA as AHCI solve the issue?
2. Announce bounty on its head and wait that someone finds it?
Sorry guys if that's a silly question, but it does seem bizarre that in this day and age drivers would not be supported upon the initial Windows install
Just built a new Intel Core 2 Duo based system with ASUS P5B Delux mobo. I installed a new Seagate 320G SATA II HDD as a main drive and recycled an old Maxtor 60G IDE for extra storage.
Unfortunately the HDD came without a floppy with SATA drivers and I did not make one in advance. On the first boot up both drives seemed to have been recognised in the BIOS, with the default SATA drive configuration as IDE. However when partitioning, only 130G of available 320G were recognised on the Seagate. I nevertheless proceeded to install windows XP (SP1/2) and once completed the system shows I have only one 60G HDD. Seagate just gone AWOL.
The strange thing though is that when you go into the drive Properties/Hardware, both drives are shown as 'working properly'
So, what do I need to do now?
1. Reinstall Windows, and install that SATA Drivers in the process? If thats the case, would the Intel ICH8 32bit RAID/AHCI driver disk (which I subsequently created using the supplied Asus utility) fit the purpose? Once installed, would simply configuring SATA as AHCI solve the issue?
2. Announce bounty on its head and wait that someone finds it?
Sorry guys if that's a silly question, but it does seem bizarre that in this day and age drivers would not be supported upon the initial Windows install