can't detect SATA drive

[tommason]

Hi,
I'm trying to format a new SATA drive. I have connected it up to my vista machine and it initially detected that it was there; apparently installed the necessary software and i then restarted.

The drive doesn't come up in 'my computer' yet it is seen in 'device manager' and 'disk management' as unallocated space. It is also seen in 'Diskpart'. I have tried (within diskpart) to convert it to a dynamic drive as I can'y format or do anything to it in any of these programs....

Any ideas?

Cheers!

Tom

[EtheAv8r]

In Disk Management you have to right click the volume reported as Unallocated space and create a partition, and then having created the partition, format it.

[[GSV]Trig]

^^ He's right.

[EtheAv8r]

^^ He's right.

I live in a house with 4 women (wife and 3 teenage - but very lovely - daughters) - it is vary rare for me to be right, and even rarer for this to be publicly acknowledged!

[peterb]

I live in a house with 4 women (wife and 3 teenage - but very lovely - daughters) - it is vary rare for me to be right, and even rarer for this to be publicly acknowledged!

Likewise - deep sympathy!

(Who was it who said "If a man is alone in a forest with no women nearer than 15 miles - is he still wrong?)

[tommason]

I couldn't create a simple partition (as the option was greyed out), However, I changed some settings to show the disk in list view at the top and then could 'initialise' it (which i did) I could then create my partition.

I live in a house with one woman.......and I can't remeber the last time I was right

[errata]

I changed my name to wright and am still never right