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16-Dec-2007, 04:58 PM #1
New SATA drives recognised by BIOS but not detected by Vista
What it says on the tin, really. I installed two new Maxtor 250GB SATA drives this afternoon, as companions to my 500GB main C:/ drive. They are picked up in the BIOS just fine, but Vista can't see them. They don't show up in Disk Management or the Device Manager, so I can't format them or do anything with them.

I've looked through the manual and the BIOS very thoroughly, but I can't find anything wrong. Everything that should be enabled is enabled. It's an MSI K9N Mainboard. I should stress that this is NOT a RAID setup - I just want two extra HDs.

Please, help needed on making Vista detect these drives
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