Second Hard drive / Sata

[michaelcooper5]

Been working on my system and focusing primarily on overclocking with the help of Clunk.org. Today, I have been working on installing a new sound card and a second SATA drive as noted in my system specs. PROB: the system wont recognize the drive. When I chk the my computer section it is only posting one hard drive. Solutions?

[affiliate13]

First check it is present in your BIOS, if it is boot into windows and check the deivce manager.

If it is present in the device manager then you will need to create a partition on the disk and format it with a file system for windows to be able to use it. You can do this with the disk manager.

If it is not present in the BIOS check your cables or try it in another PC.

I would ask you to change settings in the BIOS if your other disk was IDE but since they are both SATA i would guess the BIOS settings are fine.

[michaelcooper5]

Second drive is showing up in device manager. Can you give me a step by step to create partition and formating?

[affiliate13]

Here is one that should help:
Windows Vista Help: Create and format a hard disk partition

Which disk is it, the Raptor?

let me know if you get stuck

[michaelcooper5]

perfect thx affiliate! Worked great ..

[affiliate13]

splendid, was that the raptor you were installing?