I just purchased a new Seagate 300gb hd, and in addition to it a STLab Serial ATA PCI Card. I already had 2 WD 120gb hd's running in RAID 0 before this purchase.
So i installed the SATA card in order to add my 3rd drive since my mobo only supports 2. Originally i left my original drives attached to the mobo SATA connectors, and put the new 300gb on the card... however this cause the pc to try and boot from the new drive.. i guess the PCI slot must have higher boot priority than the mobo SATA connectors. I switched my old drives over to the new card and hooked up the new drive to the mobo. Everything booted up fine, and in the boot sequence all 3 drives were detected, however when i got into Windows, i could not see my new 300gb drive in Windows Explorer.
Should I not be able to see it here, and have the option to format it, etc. through Windows Explorer?
If someone could enlighten me as to what is going wrong it would be greatly appreciated.
Thx
So i installed the SATA card in order to add my 3rd drive since my mobo only supports 2. Originally i left my original drives attached to the mobo SATA connectors, and put the new 300gb on the card... however this cause the pc to try and boot from the new drive.. i guess the PCI slot must have higher boot priority than the mobo SATA connectors. I switched my old drives over to the new card and hooked up the new drive to the mobo. Everything booted up fine, and in the boot sequence all 3 drives were detected, however when i got into Windows, i could not see my new 300gb drive in Windows Explorer.
Should I not be able to see it here, and have the option to format it, etc. through Windows Explorer?
If someone could enlighten me as to what is going wrong it would be greatly appreciated.
Thx