Finding Second Hard Drive in Vista

[Scart]

I installed a second hard drive a while ago and it shows up in my bios, but i can't see it in vista.
Well correction, I can see it on the device manager but I can't format it or anything.
Anyone know want to do?
I intend to use it for a mirror raid setup when I have time (i.e. summer)

[Scart]

well I still can't fix this problem.
I tried setting up RAID 1 anyways, and when I made the array, i couldn't figure out how to clear or rebuild the second disk. Or well, I knew how, it's just that when I said to do either of them, it would return to the menu immediately as if nothing happened. When I try to boot, the loading bar shows up and moves 1 cm then crashes.

[cadaveca]

IN the Vista CP, go to admin tool, and then disk management. In disk management, rightclick the listing for the drive and choose "set as active".

[Scart]

THANK YOU!

[cadaveca]

Heh, so it worked?

[Scart]

Yes but unfortunately I still can't get RAID 1 to work.

I can make a mirror array and when i select to rebuild the second disk in the array, it goes back to the menu instantly, saying its status is "REBUILD". If I leave RAID enabled, the vista loading bar shows up, it moves two pixels, and then reboots.

I don't know if I have to let it sit for a couple hours or what.

[cadaveca]

Ok, so you need to install the intel RAID driver, and do some registry hacks to make the drive bootable under AHCI.

Then you should be able to build a RAID.

I could type out the instructions, but check this thread:

HOWTO: enable AHCI mode after installing Windows - PC Perspective Forums

[SugarJ]

"This issue occurs if the AHCI driver (Msahci.sys) in Windows Vista is disabled. This driver must be enabled before you change the SATA mode of the boot drive."

Try this registry change to enable AHCI in Vista. Must be done before you change the drive type in BIOS.

Error message when you start a Windows Vista-based computer after you change the SATA mode of the boot drive: "STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE"


And yes, it should take quite a while to build a RAID array, especially if you have data on one drive.

[Scart]

I tried SugarJ's method and i'll see if I can get it to work

Thanks alot guys!

[Scart]

So that made no difference to RAID.

I also have an nvidia chipset (ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wifi)
and it looked like that thread was about an intel one.