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945P-A MoBo not recognizing 3rd SATA drive

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by kejak28

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I have been running 2 SATA drives and a IDE CD-Rom for abotu a year and a half now. I recently bought a 3rd SATA drive and when I plug it into the SATA3 port and reboot the BIOS does not recognize it.

I have updated the BIOS to build 8.00.12, build date 04/27/07. And I am running Windows XP proffesional version 2002 Service Pack 2.

I have tried changing the the setting in the BIOS. When it is set to Enhanced and it shows the 2 Sata's and the CD rom, when I change the setting to Compatible, SATA's only it only shows the first drive and the CD-rom. All other settings do not change anything.

I a looking to have 3 SATA drives in my computer can some one give me a solution?

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by computercookie

regardless you will need the drivers.

You don't mention if you wish to boot from this drive! If you do you will need the drivers and press F6(using MS OS's) when prompted to install RAID, to enable you to install the drivers.

Some more details might help.

by kejak28

I am not trying to boot from this device. my first hard drive is the main one with the operating system on it. This new (3rd) hard drive is jsut for data storage.

by kejak28

After I jsut used the 3rd and 1st drives and downloaded Westren Digital's utility tool I was able to partition this drive adn set it up. Upon rebooting the system with all three drives in teh BIOS found them all and all is well. Thanks for your help. I do not think I have ever had to install drivers for a HDD before.

by oh smeg

Open Device Manager when the computer is finished loading Windows. Go to Drive Management and see if the new SATA Drive is listed there. Right Click on it and chose the Prepare or Format option and Format the Drive so it has a Partition on it then look in My Computer Explorer or whatever you use and you'll see the new drive there.

You need to format any new drive before Windows can see it.

If you can not see the New Drive in Drive Management you'll need to post back with the Hardware Details as this is a Hardware issue not a Software issue.

Col

by kejak28

After I just used the 3rd and 1st drives and downloaded Westren Digital's utility tool I was able to partition this drive adn set it up. Upon rebooting the system with all three drives in teh BIOS found them all and all is well. Thanks for your help. I do not think I have ever had to install drivers for a HDD before.

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