Installing two Sata drives
telecomops101
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Question on how to install two sata drives in a pc. I built a friend on mines pc this weekend and I installed two sata drives along with two DVD drives. He has one of the newest Asus motherboards with an Intel Quad 4 LG775 chip. On the motherboard there are six ports for Sata,
1/2/4/5 red boot disk and 3&4 black data disk. I have the two sata hard drives on 1&2 and the dvd's on 3&4. First is this correct? Second I loaded XP Prof fine, but the system doesn't see the second sata hard drive, it does see the first one and the two dvd's. In explore is shows C:,
& E:. Do I need to enable it in the BIOS.
Also, when booting up the OS prompts for a Administrator pw. I didn't set up the system as Administrator. How can I get the system to boot directly to the desktop.
1/2/4/5 red boot disk and 3&4 black data disk. I have the two sata hard drives on 1&2 and the dvd's on 3&4. First is this correct? Second I loaded XP Prof fine, but the system doesn't see the second sata hard drive, it does see the first one and the two dvd's. In explore is shows C:,
& E:. Do I need to enable it in the BIOS.Also, when booting up the OS prompts for a Administrator pw. I didn't set up the system as Administrator. How can I get the system to boot directly to the desktop.
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dynamik
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It doesn't really matter which ports you use. I'm guessing the color-coding is for the ports that support raid. Double-check your raid settings in the BIOS and make sure everything is enabled. -
Ricka182
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I would also recco checking the bios. I just installed a second SATA drive for a user, and booted to it not being there. The SATA ports were disabled on the mobo. Changed the setting, booted up good, used Windows Disk Management to format and partition...all good = happy user....i remain, he who remains to be....