Installing SATA as additional storage device

[ree3162003]

I have a Mator SATA drive that I plan on installing as an additional storage device. I am going to connect it to the SATA controller thats built in on my motherboard ( MSI 865PE Neo 2). I also have 2 other internal IDE harddrives one of which is my boot drive. My question is do I need to make any changes in the bio's to enable the SATA controller on my motherboard before I install the drive, or will it dectect the drive automatically.

[dicecca112]

I say try it out, and if it doesn't detect it then go from there

[ree3162003]

I say try it out, and if it doesn't detect it then go from there

I was going to go about the route. I'll see what happens.

[CrashOveride]

You might need to enable SATA, but that depends on weather there is an option for disable/enabling it in your boards BIOS and what default is. I think I had to turn it on on my board.

You will need to use the disk manager (or somthing like PartitionMagic) in Windows to format it though (in case you didn't know:D). Start -> Run -> "compmgmt.msc" and then go down to Disk Managment and right click on the drive (if it doesn't show up, then hopefully you just need to enable SATA in the BIOS and it isn't somthing else) and format it as needed (I think with a larger [>130Gb-ish] drive you have to use NTFS and I think you need to have SP1 too - just FYI). It won't show up in My Computer or anything until you format it.

[ree3162003]

I have the disk that it came with that alows me to format it. Ill try just pluging it in and see if I can format it if not Ill take a look at the bio's.

[ree3162003]

I installed the disk that came with the drive called max blast 3 , but when I try to luanch it to format the drive it crashes.

[ree3162003]

I'll try uninstalling it and reinstalling.

[ree3162003]

Uninstalled and reinstalled it still crashes.

[ree3162003]

The drive is not showing up in Disk Managment so maybe I need to try go into the bio's and enable the SATA controller.

[ree3162003]

Ok I did a search on the fourms here for info on settings in bio's with a SATA drive, and I belive I need to enable the SATA controller as it is diabled by defult. Ill try that now and see what happens.

[ree3162003]

Ok I enabled the controller and it detects the drive. Now I just need to format it and make shure it works.

[ree3162003]

Ok I found out how to format it. It's formatting.

[CrashOveride]

Um... just FYI you can edit your posts so you don't have to do like 8 in a row.

Glad you got it figured out yourself though.