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Mkoll - Nov 5, 2008 at 05:33 PM
 Jube - Jan 30, 2013 at 06:42 PM
Hello,
I got a P4 with a mobo Asrock P4VM890 and an old samsung IDE Hdd. What happens is that I bought a barracuda 250Gb 16Mb SATA Hdd and is detected by bios, I saw that the configuration was on non-raid setting and everything seemed to be fine but when I start-up windows everything goes just as normal but the new drive doesn't show up in "My computer" folder and there is an icon on the tray that is used to disconnect a periferal device mencioning the name of the drive. I've seen the system info and the drive shows up there. Anyone got any clue about this?
Ty and good evening

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xpcman
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Nov 5, 2008 at 05:40 PM
The drive will not show until it is formatted.
Right click My Computer - select Manage - select Disk Management you should see your drive and be able to format it
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Mkoll
Nov 6, 2008 at 01:31 PM
done, ty very much =P
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loco4olas
Feb 15, 2009 at 06:14 AM
Excellent advice-thank you very much-solved the problem immediately (well after waiting for the formatting of a 1TB!).

Again, thanks.
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darkness
Mar 19, 2009 at 06:14 PM
10q 10q 10q 10q 10q man
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dodow1234
Jun 18, 2009 at 08:36 AM
Thanks a billion mate, its work
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babysmoke
Aug 20, 2009 at 06:46 PM
Glad to see that I'm not the only one with the problem! Thanks xpcman! It was slightly more confusing for me, but I figured it out in the end... cHeeRs~!
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MIke_oco
Feb 17, 2009 at 03:03 PM
After two hours of getting nowhere, your advice solved it in 2 minutes. Thanks
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sniperdude
Nov 3, 2009 at 05:36 PM
hi guys Im getting The Same Problem Im useing A 1Tb 32mb Cache Samsung Sata Drive And Its Not being detected in my bios so I cant install an O/S If Any One Can Help It Is Much needed :)
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WIcked_XR
Mar 7, 2010 at 02:38 AM
Hi all, ive got the same problem, segate sata drive is seen in bios, comes up in system, but cannot see it in disk manager.....the drive HAS 1TB of data loaded, so cant format, even if I could see it.......it does appear in the 'safely remove hardware'.....
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Mar 7, 2010 at 12:32 PM
You might be able to repair the MBR using this software:

https://download.cnet.com/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Free-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html?tag=mncol%3Bpop&cdlPid=10898593

Good Luck
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Costin
May 25, 2009 at 08:55 AM
THANKS A LOT!!!!!
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jerryboy78
Jun 13, 2009 at 08:28 AM
Wowwwwwwww . Problem solved for me to. :) Thanks a lot
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weeg
Sep 4, 2009 at 04:12 PM
thank you so much for the information. it really helped!
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robbie
Dec 28, 2009 at 05:54 AM
hey thanks I would have been stuffed if it wasnt for you guys cheers
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ron
Dec 3, 2009 at 04:18 AM
thanks very good thinking!! works for me..
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