i'll try to explain as best as i can... i recently brought a WDC 250GB SATA2 hard drive, my friend told me that SATA2 drives would work with my MB (K7N2 Delta2) that supports SATA, but so far i can not get this drive to show up in windows. in the bios i have turnd on the Serial ATA function and enabled RAID (i don't know if you need to enable RAID however, but i still tried it). also the drive is detected in POST along with my IDE hard drives, it's also detected in the RAID configuration. in windows (xp pro) the drivers are installed in the "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controlers" and "SCSI and RAID controlers" list. the drive doesn't show in the "Disk Drives" list, but there is "NVIDIA JBOD 232.88GB" there which i assume is the RAID configuration. in my system tray is the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon which has my new drive listed there. i've attached a screen shot to try and make those things clearer. any help to get this drive to show up in My Computer and be useable would be greatly appreciated. thanks
now i have the drive showing up in device manager, but it still does not appear in my computer (see attachment).
Does the drive appear in Disk Management (control panel > adminitrative tools > computer management > Disk Management), and is it initialised? 'My Computer' shows partitions, not drives. So I think the drive isn't partitioned or the partition isn't initialised.
