Kirk Gittings
20-Sep-2007, 15:10
I've run out of room on my two eSata drives and their matching usb backup drives and just bought two additional 500GB Seagate Sata drives to run as eSata drives in Antec enclosures.
They are powered up. The problen is my PC cannot see them in Windows Explorer (it sees the other two older ones and the backups fine). The sata drives have identical dual outlet eSAta cards that came with the original Seagates.
I can see the two new drives in the device manager, but not in Windows explorer or in the bios.
I assume I need to format these drives, but I can't see them in a place where I can format them including through XP Setup disk going to the bios. I can't see them there either.
Any ideas? All the help info through Seagate, Antec and Windows suggest going at formating through XP setup disk/bios, but this is not working!
They are powered up. The problen is my PC cannot see them in Windows Explorer (it sees the other two older ones and the backups fine). The sata drives have identical dual outlet eSAta cards that came with the original Seagates.
I can see the two new drives in the device manager, but not in Windows explorer or in the bios.
I assume I need to format these drives, but I can't see them in a place where I can format them including through XP Setup disk going to the bios. I can't see them there either.
Any ideas? All the help info through Seagate, Antec and Windows suggest going at formating through XP setup disk/bios, but this is not working!