Can someone just give me a quick step by step? I have physichally installed it, I am just confused by the jumpers and getting it picked up in Windows. It is a Western Digital SATA 250GB. Cheers fellas!
SATA drives shouldn't have any jumpers. And the drives/motherboard should come with a little floppy with drivers on them.
Is it just a case of installing drivers from the floppy? Can I get the drivers from online? They do have jumpers for different modes, not for Master Slave. Also Windows isn't picking up anything fullstop, is this not kinda weird?
You shoudl leave the jumpers as they are from factory, unless you know what they mean so you can change them First enable the SATA ports in your BIOS, depending on your motherboard you may have a seperate BIOS come up for it. When you get to windows it should say "NEw hardware detected" and ask for raid software, again dependant on motherboard these may be included in your chipset. If not, goto the control panel -> admin tools -> computer management and storage. See if you can see the drive there, then initialise it. You can also use the manufacturers software from their website (or something like UBCD to initialise it before windows boots.
Can't see it in the admin tools>local manager. I still get this weird thing on boot up saying like "No BIOS detected". I think nothing of it, as my pc boots and I can access BIOS settings.
This is a common misunderstanding by owners of motherboards with SATA raid. SATA RAID requires a new BIOS to be loaded when drives are found to maintain then, if it doesn;t find a hard drive at all on its ports it will say "No BIOS detected"/"BIOS not installed" or similar, check which ports you're installing it in. Goto My computer -> properties and check that all the hardware is correctly installed.
I installed it on a normal SATA port, not a RAID port. It came up with the BIOS message even when I was just using an IDE HDD.
