SATAII drive not assigned drive letter after MB change
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Posted by on August 7, 2006, 4:30 pm
Please log in for more thread options I have two SATAII drives an 80 GIG and a 400 GIG. 80 is my OS and 400 GIG is my data. I changed to a dual proc motherboard and one that supported SATAII, reformated the 80 GIG and thought life would be good. Why do I not see the 400 GIG... Its there, see it on post and see it under XP in disk manager, but it will not assign a drive letter to it. Of course lots of sublte changes - northbridge chipset, 4 sata slots instead of 2 (tried them all). Originally it was a basic disk - my only option is to change it to a dynamic disk. I have a box of IDE drives here, can drop anyone of them in and they will get assigned a drive letter. Oh, whats the big deal here? The 400 GIG is filled with data, thats the deal. 1) Why do I not see my 400 GIG and any way I can see it without having to convert it to a dynamic disk? 2) I think the answer is no, but will I lose any data by converting it to a dynamic disk ? ( i know going back to a basic disk will lose data). Fine, I am an id10t and obviously did something wrong. Thanks Scott | |||||||||||||
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Posted by on August 7, 2006, 5:02 pm
Please log in for more thread options If it is dymanic.. don't you have you have to mount it? Did you install the motherboard SATA Drivers.? [Thundersha 278850] Games that I like to play hawkbill666@juno.com wrote: > Ok... got some confusion and a some frustration brewing here....
> > I have two SATAII drives an 80 GIG and a 400 GIG. > 80 is my OS and 400 GIG is my data. > > I changed to a dual proc motherboard and one that supported SATAII, > reformated the 80 GIG and thought life would be good. > > Why do I not see the 400 GIG... Its there, see it on post and see it > under XP in disk manager, but it will not assign a drive letter to it. > > Of course lots of sublte changes - northbridge chipset, 4 sata slots > instead of 2 (tried them all). > > Originally it was a basic disk - my only option is to change it to a > dynamic disk. > > I have a box of IDE drives here, can drop anyone of them in and they > will get assigned a drive letter. > > Oh, whats the big deal here? The 400 GIG is filled with data, thats > the deal. > > 1) Why do I not see my 400 GIG and any way I can see it without having > to convert it to a dynamic disk? > 2) I think the answer is no, but will I lose any data by converting it > to a dynamic disk ? ( i know going back to a basic disk will lose > data). > > > Fine, I am an id10t and obviously did something wrong. > > Thanks > > Scott | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Rod Speed on August 7, 2006, 5:04 pm
Please log in for more thread options hawkbill666@juno.com wrote:
> Ok... got some confusion and a some frustration brewing here....
> I have two SATAII drives an 80 GIG and a 400 GIG.
> 80 is my OS and 400 GIG is my data. > I changed to a dual proc motherboard and one that supported
> SATAII, reformated the 80 GIG and thought life would be good. > Why do I not see the 400 GIG... Its there, see it on post and see it
> under XP in disk manager, but it will not assign a drive letter to it. Thats usually because it doesnt see it as partitioned and formatted. > Of course lots of sublte changes - northbridge
> chipset, 4 sata slots instead of 2 (tried them all). > Originally it was a basic disk - my only option is to change it to a dynamic
disk.
You're less than clear here, does it show as partitioned and formatted ? > I have a box of IDE drives here, can drop anyone
> of them in and they will get assigned a drive letter. > Oh, whats the big deal here? The 400 GIG
> is filled with data, thats the deal. > 1) Why do I not see my 400 GIG and any way I can
> see it without having to convert it to a dynamic disk? > 2) I think the answer is no, but will I lose any data by converting it
> to a dynamic disk ? ( i know going back to a basic disk will lose data). > Fine, I am an id10t and obviously did something wrong.
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Posted by on August 9, 2006, 12:15 am
Please log in for more thread options Looking at it now:
Volume -blank Layout-Partition Type - Basic File System - Blank Status - Healthy (active) Capacity - 372.60 GB Free Space - 372.60 GB % Free - 100% Fault Tolerance - No Overhead - 0% And under drives it shows as DIsk 1 And no, I dont want to hear anything about the data is gone etc. I simply remove installed a new motherboard, no other changes, do my little static thing, etc. No SATAII driver that I can see, VIA chipet, cool and quite, realtek, VIA ethernet, USB, is it. Thanks Scott Rod Speed wrote: > hawkbill666@juno.com wrote:
> > > Ok... got some confusion and a some frustration brewing here....
>
> > I have two SATAII drives an 80 GIG and a 400 GIG.
> > 80 is my OS and 400 GIG is my data. >
> > I changed to a dual proc motherboard and one that supported
> > SATAII, reformated the 80 GIG and thought life would be good. >
> > Why do I not see the 400 GIG... Its there, see it on post and see it
> > under XP in disk manager, but it will not assign a drive letter to it. >
> Thats usually because it doesnt see it as partitioned and formatted. > > > Of course lots of sublte changes - northbridge
> > chipset, 4 sata slots instead of 2 (tried them all). >
> > Originally it was a basic disk - my only option is to change it to a dynamic
disk.
>
> You're less than clear here, does it show as partitioned and formatted ? > > > I have a box of IDE drives here, can drop anyone
> > of them in and they will get assigned a drive letter. >
> > Oh, whats the big deal here? The 400 GIG
> > is filled with data, thats the deal. >
> > 1) Why do I not see my 400 GIG and any way I can
> > see it without having to convert it to a dynamic disk? >
> > 2) I think the answer is no, but will I lose any data by converting it
> > to a dynamic disk ? ( i know going back to a basic disk will lose data). >
> > Fine, I am an id10t and obviously did something wrong.
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Posted by Rod Speed on August 9, 2006, 1:07 am
Please log in for more thread options hawkbill666@juno.com wrote:
> Looking at it now:
> Volume -blank
> Layout-Partition > Type - Basic > File System - Blank > Status - Healthy (active) > Capacity - 372.60 GB > Free Space - 372.60 GB Thats the critical bit, it isnt seeing it as partitioned and formatted, just as free space. That's why it isnt getting a letter. > % Free - 100%
> Fault Tolerance - No > Overhead - 0% > And under drives it shows as DIsk 1
> And no, I dont want to hear anything about the data is gone etc.
> I simply remove installed a new motherboard, no other changes, > do my little static thing, etc. You previously said that you had formatted the 80G drive. You can see that effect with drives over 137G if you havent installed at least SP1 with XP. The fix is just to apply at least SP1, SP2 is better. Thats basically just installing 38bit LBA support which is needed for drives over 137G. > No SATAII driver that I can see, VIA chipet,
> cool and quite, realtek, VIA ethernet, USB, is it. If the problem isnt 48bit LBA support, you should still be able to get the data back. > Rod Speed wrote:
>> hawkbill666@juno.com wrote:
>> >>> Ok... got some confusion and a some frustration brewing here....
>>
>>> I have two SATAII drives an 80 GIG and a 400 GIG.
>>> 80 is my OS and 400 GIG is my data. >>
>>> I changed to a dual proc motherboard and one that supported
>>> SATAII, reformated the 80 GIG and thought life would be good. >>
>>> Why do I not see the 400 GIG... Its there, see it on post and see it
>>> under XP in disk manager, but it will not assign a drive letter to >>> it. >>
>> Thats usually because it doesnt see it as partitioned and formatted. >> >>> Of course lots of sublte changes - northbridge
>>> chipset, 4 sata slots instead of 2 (tried them all). >>
>>> Originally it was a basic disk - my only option is to change it to
>>> a dynamic disk. >>
>> You're less than clear here, does it show as partitioned and >> formatted ? >> >>> I have a box of IDE drives here, can drop anyone
>>> of them in and they will get assigned a drive letter. >>
>>> Oh, whats the big deal here? The 400 GIG
>>> is filled with data, thats the deal. >>
>>> 1) Why do I not see my 400 GIG and any way I can
>>> see it without having to convert it to a dynamic disk? >>
>>> 2) I think the answer is no, but will I lose any data by converting
>>> it >>> to a dynamic disk ? ( i know going back to a basic disk will lose >>> data). >>
>>> Fine, I am an id10t and obviously did something wrong.
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