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AkaMrMike
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_ 		7. January 2007 @ 11:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I am using a sil 3512 sata card to hook up a western digital 250gb hd to my pc. The drive shows up in device manager but not in my computer, it says device is working properly, but it doesn't have a drive letter. The raid option is disabled also since I am only using one drive. Thanks in advance for advice.
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ddp
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_ 		7. January 2007 @ 12:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
did you partition & format the drive?
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maddjeff
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_ 		7. January 2007 @ 13:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I had the same prob until I installed a 4Gb HD as a master drive onto the main IDE. Then everything started to work. But I Still can't make it the BOOT drive. I have a ABIT 939 Motherboard with Audio 9600 Radeon AVG VGA Graphics Card.
So I suggest you buy a small IDE HDD and install it as your boot drive and it should work.

The Sata HD is a Western Dig 250GB.
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ddp
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_ 		7. January 2007 @ 13:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
maddjeff, just have to change the boot drive in the bios to sata from ide hd(pata).
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elokito
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_ 		7. January 2007 @ 16:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
control panel, administrative tools, open computer management, click disk management,find the hard drive and format and partition it
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AkaMrMike
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_ 		8. January 2007 @ 03:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks for all of you guys help. The problem was that I didn't create partition. I didn't know this was neccessary since I never had to do it with other ide drives.
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ddp
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_ 		8. January 2007 @ 15:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
all drives whether ide or sata have to be partitioned than formated before being used.
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