[Httrck13]

While I have built/worked on computers in the past, I am not too familiar with SATA and have never really had a problem in this area before:

I have just finished building my last computer and have installed 2 SATA HDDs as well as a SATA BD-Rom and SATA DVD-Rom, all show up in BiOS, and I have installed winXP Pro OS through the BD-Rom. In Windows Device Manager the BD/DVD-Roms show up as fine and working. However, these are not shown in "My Computer" replaced instead by four "Removable Device"s. Also, when I load a disk into one of the drives it is not read by windows, and when clicking on any of the "Removable Devices" it says to please enter a disk into that drive.

Perhaps there is something to set-up in Windows for SATA drives I'm missing? The IDE's I've used in the past have never been a problem.


Thanks in advance for any help you can give!

[crjdriver]

What mode is the sata controller set to; ie raid, ahci, or standard ide?

[Httrck13]

Controller is set to AHCI and I have tried RAID to no avail.

[crjdriver]

I have found that sata optical drives work best when the controller is set to native ide.

One item to consider, when swapping sata modes [and the system drive is sata] it often results in the need for a reinstall.

[Httrck13]

Alright, I'll try that and let you know. Thanks for the advice as well.

[Httrck13]

Changed to IDE on controller and am having same problem (I believe it started at IDE setting on controller to begin with.) However, I have been able to connect an old IDE drive and it seems to be working. I'm going to try and instal bd and dvd-rom drivers through that and see if it fixes the problem by chance.

[Httrck13]

Hmm.. Installed driver disk that came with motherboard fine, but kept failing to install from disks for the SATA ROMs.. Which leads me to believe this is a problem that occured when installing WinXP... What do you think?