Sata Drives Recognized By Bios But Not Detected By Vista

Replies: 14 | Post Date: 12-16-2007, 09:58 PM | User: Jenesis | Forums: forums.techpowerup.com
What it says on the tin, really. I installed two new maxtor 250gb sata drives this afternoon, as companions to my 500gb main c:/ drive. They are picked up in the bios just fine, but vista can't see them. They don't show up in disk management or the device manager, so i can't format them or do anything with them. I've looked through the manual and the bios very thoroughly, but i can't find anything wrong. Everything that should be enabled is enabled. It's an msi k9n mainboard. I should stress that this is not a raid setup - i just want two extra hds.

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