Hard drive problems with windows xp sp3

[jonl326]

I have a 120 gig seagate eide shows up on boot up and bios but not in windows my computer or device manager anyone have any ideas

[JJ 3000]

been to disk management yet?

Is it a new hard drive? If so It should have came with a CD, run it.

[jonl326]

No have not been to disk management yet have not ever used it and no not new it is used

[JJ 3000]

Click start then Run and type in:  diskmgmt.msc   and press enter.

Do you see the drive there?

[jonl326]

Yes it is there
says Not Initialized

[Broni]

Is it a new drive?
If so, did you format it?

[jonl326]

I found it and got it running now I'm trying to figure out how to mirror hard drives thanks everyone for the help

[Broni]

Good
What do you mean by "mirror"?

[jonl326]

where two hard drives with the same identical files on each hard drive If one dies you can run off of the other hard drive If a bad you have a bad sector on 1 drive the other drive takes up the slack

[Blade285]

What you are talking about is RAID 1
Is it a SATA drive? apart from the fact that it's not working, afaik RAID only works on SATA drives

[jonl326]

Ok I did not know it had to be sata I have a Maxtor eide raid card with 4 160 gig wd hadrd drives on it

[Broni]

New hard drive should have come with cloning program. If not, you can download it from HD manufacturer site.

[jonl326]

Ok thanks Ill try that

[Broni]

You're welcome

[JJ 3000]

afaik RAID only works on SATA drives

RAID was invented long before SATA.

Jon, That RAID card should have came with a CD. Have you ran it?

Are you saying that you had three hard drives on your RAID card and added the 120 gig seagate after you had your array set up? Or did you just hook up four drives and the 120 gig seagate was the only one not recognized by your operating system?

Are you trying to Run RAID1?  I would suggest using a RAID 5 array.