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From: Jim McCants on 2 Mar 2010 19:02
After my IDE drives were not seen by Win7 64bit, I bought 2 LiteOn Sata
drives OEM from Newegg. I have SATA cables, and power cable to attach 2
SATA cables from the drives. Attached both cables to the power cable (which
is split - one power plug and hookup for the 2 SATA cables.

Installed and still Windows Explorer will not see them. I've looked in my
BIOS and have 3 options for the OnChip SATA device:

IDE
RAID
AHCI

I have it set to IDE, no good. I've tried AHCI and no good. I am not rigged
for RAID and don't want it. Does anyone have any idea of what's wrong?

Any help will be appreciated very much!

Jim

From: Charlie Russel - MVP on 2 Mar 2010 19:17
OK, there's no reason at all that an IDE drive shouldn't be seen, and I
doubt that you have a SATA controller that can't be seen, so let's try to
get a bit more information. What type of computer are we dealing with here?
Standard OEM, or a system you built? What brand of motherboard (and model),
and what are the overall system spec's? When you added the drives, did you
run Disk Manager to initialize and format them? Or were they already
formatted drives?

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel




"Jim McCants" <jcmccants(a)lowcountry.com> wrote in message
news:531BE32E-03F6-4C7D-955A-998E65ACE57F(a)microsoft.com...
> After my IDE drives were not seen by Win7 64bit, I bought 2 LiteOn Sata
> drives OEM from Newegg. I have SATA cables, and power cable to attach 2
> SATA cables from the drives. Attached both cables to the power cable
> (which is split - one power plug and hookup for the 2 SATA cables.
>
> Installed and still Windows Explorer will not see them. I've looked in my
> BIOS and have 3 options for the OnChip SATA device:
>
> IDE
> RAID
> AHCI
>
> I have it set to IDE, no good. I've tried AHCI and no good. I am not
> rigged for RAID and don't want it. Does anyone have any idea of what's
> wrong?
>
> Any help will be appreciated very much!
>
> Jim

From: Jim McCants on 2 Mar 2010 19:51
Charlie, I've tried to respond to you via the "Reply" option. That did not
work, so here goes:

My board is Abit IP35 Pro. System is home built. 4GB memory, 2 hard drives,
Quad core 6600 processor. MY problem is NOT hard drive related. The problem
is Win7 (64bit) will not 'see' my LitoOn OPTICAL drives, model IHAS124-04
which I just received from Newegg. They are OEM. I have SATA cables and a
split power plug that will accept both cable to power the drives. Upon
bootup, no optical drives are seen, Win Explorer does not see them, neither
does Device Manager. My BIOS is version #17, the latest that ABIT offers.

How do I get these drives to be seen?

Thanks,
Jim

"Jim McCants" <jcmccants(a)lowcountry.com> wrote in message
news:531BE32E-03F6-4C7D-955A-998E65ACE57F(a)microsoft.com...
> After my IDE drives were not seen by Win7 64bit, I bought 2 LiteOn Sata
> drives OEM from Newegg. I have SATA cables, and power cable to attach 2
> SATA cables from the drives. Attached both cables to the power cable
> (which is split - one power plug and hookup for the 2 SATA cables.
>
> Installed and still Windows Explorer will not see them. I've looked in my
> BIOS and have 3 options for the OnChip SATA device:
>
> IDE
> RAID
> AHCI
>
> I have it set to IDE, no good. I've tried AHCI and no good. I am not
> rigged for RAID and don't want it. Does anyone have any idea of what's
> wrong?
>
> Any help will be appreciated very much!
>
> Jim

From: Charlie Russel - MVP on 2 Mar 2010 20:14
Ah, optical drives. First, are they recognized in BIOS? Second, are any of
the drives you already have running off that SATA controller? In
devmgmt.msc, are there any ?'s or X's? If they are visible in the BIOS, and
no sign of them in devmgmt, then I strongly suspect you're missing a mobo
driver for your SATA controller.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel




"Jim McCants" <jcmccants(a)lowcountry.com> wrote in message
news:0FFC8C36-B820-405B-B925-7A61C403D5A4(a)microsoft.com...
> Charlie, I've tried to respond to you via the "Reply" option. That did not
> work, so here goes:
>
> My board is Abit IP35 Pro. System is home built. 4GB memory, 2 hard
> drives, Quad core 6600 processor. MY problem is NOT hard drive related.
> The problem is Win7 (64bit) will not 'see' my LitoOn OPTICAL drives, model
> IHAS124-04 which I just received from Newegg. They are OEM. I have SATA
> cables and a split power plug that will accept both cable to power the
> drives. Upon bootup, no optical drives are seen, Win Explorer does not
> see them, neither does Device Manager. My BIOS is version #17, the latest
> that ABIT offers.
>
> How do I get these drives to be seen?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> "Jim McCants" <jcmccants(a)lowcountry.com> wrote in message
> news:531BE32E-03F6-4C7D-955A-998E65ACE57F(a)microsoft.com...
>> After my IDE drives were not seen by Win7 64bit, I bought 2 LiteOn Sata
>> drives OEM from Newegg. I have SATA cables, and power cable to attach 2
>> SATA cables from the drives. Attached both cables to the power cable
>> (which is split - one power plug and hookup for the 2 SATA cables.
>>
>> Installed and still Windows Explorer will not see them. I've looked in my
>> BIOS and have 3 options for the OnChip SATA device:
>>
>> IDE
>> RAID
>> AHCI
>>
>> I have it set to IDE, no good. I've tried AHCI and no good. I am not
>> rigged for RAID and don't want it. Does anyone have any idea of what's
>> wrong?
>>
>> Any help will be appreciated very much!
>>
>> Jim
>

From: Jim McCants on 2 Mar 2010 20:32
Charlie, in BIOS, I show 1 and 2 are hard drives, 3,4,5,6 show nothing. I
don't see anything showing the SATA Optical drives. They are not in device
manager. Where could I look in BIOS for the drives. I have them plugged in
the same SATA channels that the hard drives are. Do I need them connected
elsewhere?

Thanks!
Jim

"Charlie Russel - MVP" <Charlie(a)mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote in message
news:OHSGi7muKHA.800(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Ah, optical drives. First, are they recognized in BIOS? Second, are any of
> the drives you already have running off that SATA controller? In
> devmgmt.msc, are there any ?'s or X's? If they are visible in the BIOS,
> and no sign of them in devmgmt, then I strongly suspect you're missing a
> mobo driver for your SATA controller.
>
> --
> Charlie.
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel
>
>
>
>
> "Jim McCants" <jcmccants(a)lowcountry.com> wrote in message
> news:0FFC8C36-B820-405B-B925-7A61C403D5A4(a)microsoft.com...
>> Charlie, I've tried to respond to you via the "Reply" option. That did
>> not work, so here goes:
>>
>> My board is Abit IP35 Pro. System is home built. 4GB memory, 2 hard
>> drives, Quad core 6600 processor. MY problem is NOT hard drive related.
>> The problem is Win7 (64bit) will not 'see' my LitoOn OPTICAL drives,
>> model IHAS124-04 which I just received from Newegg. They are OEM. I have
>> SATA cables and a split power plug that will accept both cable to power
>> the drives. Upon bootup, no optical drives are seen, Win Explorer does
>> not see them, neither does Device Manager. My BIOS is version #17, the
>> latest that ABIT offers.
>>
>> How do I get these drives to be seen?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jim
>>
>> "Jim McCants" <jcmccants(a)lowcountry.com> wrote in message
>> news:531BE32E-03F6-4C7D-955A-998E65ACE57F(a)microsoft.com...
>>> After my IDE drives were not seen by Win7 64bit, I bought 2 LiteOn Sata
>>> drives OEM from Newegg. I have SATA cables, and power cable to attach 2
>>> SATA cables from the drives. Attached both cables to the power cable
>>> (which is split - one power plug and hookup for the 2 SATA cables.
>>>
>>> Installed and still Windows Explorer will not see them. I've looked in
>>> my BIOS and have 3 options for the OnChip SATA device:
>>>
>>> IDE
>>> RAID
>>> AHCI
>>>
>>> I have it set to IDE, no good. I've tried AHCI and no good. I am not
>>> rigged for RAID and don't want it. Does anyone have any idea of what's
>>> wrong?
>>>
>>> Any help will be appreciated very much!
>>>
>>> Jim
>>
>
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