System won't boot after adding SATA drive

[jamawass]

Added a seagate sata 7200.8 250 gb drive to my system and it won't post whether I connect it to the via or promise controller. Once I disconnect the drive the system posts. Checked MSI's website for Bios updates but none address this issue. My mobo is K8T Neo-FISR, socket 754. Thanks for any input

 

[AristoV300]

When you added the drive did you ensure that it wasn't the boot drive?

 

[stevty2889]

Did you make sure the SATA controller was enabled in the bios, before attaching the drive?

 

[jamawass]

Originally posted by: AristoV300
When you added the drive did you ensure that it wasn't the boot drive?

My primary drive is a SATA drive and they don't have jumpers so how do I make sure the second sata drive isn't read as the boot drive?

 

[PlasticJesus]

You'll need to do that in the BIOS, I would think.

 

[jamawass]

Fixed that, system now boots into windows but new drive isn't listed in my computer but I see it described as SCSI drive in Hardware manager like my boot drive. Downloaded seagate's discwizard but that doesn't list even my boot drive! How do I format my additional drive?

 

[PlasticJesus]

Go into your Control Panel and choose Administrative Tools then Computer Management then Disk Management. Does your drive show up there? If so, you can format it from there.

Since you are using a controller, it's perfectly okay that your system is detecting it as a SCSI device.

 

[jamawass]

Originally posted by: PlasticJesus
Go into your Control Panel and choose Administrative Tools then Computer Management then Disk Management. Does your drive show up there? If so, you can format it from there.

Since you are using a controller, it's perfectly okay that your system is detecting it as a SCSI device.

Thanks, formatting it right now.

 

[PlasticJesus]

Good deal.