Hi guys,
I had to do a rebuild yesterday as my motherboard and PSU were on their way out. I fitted the new mobo & PSU last night and all was working except that when I go into Windows ,2 of my 3 hard drives do not show as drives in Windows Explorer.
I then went into the Control Panel and chose "Administrative Tools" and opened up the "Disk Management" program.
In there, the 2 hard drives show as "unreadable" and as "Basic" drives rather than "Dynamic".
Please see the screenshot below:-
http://img111.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_707lo.JPG
Does anyone know what would cause these 2 drives to show as unreadable, is it an issue where I havent plugged the SATA cables in the correct slots on the motherboard?
Am I right in thinking that the way things work now is that, the SATA slot on the motherboard determines whether the drive runs as Primary or runs as Slave?
Am I also right in asuming that the windows drive (normally C:\) should always be Disk 0?
On my motherboard (which is a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R) there are a total of 8 SATA slots, 6 of which are an orange colour, and 2 that are Purple.
See mobo pic below:-
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/pimg/MB-086-GI_400.jpg
I just need to establish whether this issue is caused by me plugging the SATA cables into the wrong slots on the motherboard. Each of the slots on the mobo has a number besides it, I guess that each SATA number corresponds to the Disk number I see in the Windows Disk Management?
Please help with this guys, Im a bit confused, and concerned considering I have all of my mp3 collection that I've collected since 1998 on 1 of those 2 hard drives (a majority of which is LEGAL, or has been converted from vinyl or CD's that I have purchased - but a lot have been sold on (the vinyls that is).
HALP PLEASE!!!!!
Other than this, the rebuild has gone fine and I have no power issues anymore, yipee!!
Thanks in advance