2 SATA drives on ASUS p4p

[Prodoozer]

I just installed 2 Seagate 80g SATA drives on an ASUS P4P800-E Motherboard.
I installed WinXP home and anyway long story short...

Windows only sees one drive C: form the explorer view. ..but in the Hardware view I see both drives. I didn't set this up as Raid, just want one drive for OS/Apps and the other for Audio.

Any suggestions?
Thanks to all,
Prodoozer

[jpw23]

do you have one set as master and the other as slave? do you have it setup in the bios that way as well?

[crankz1]

Use the disk manager to format the second disk.

[Prodoozer]

I got it...thanks . I never did create a drive partition on the 2nd drive. Working now.

How do I access disk manager?

My system
Asus P4P800-E
2 Seagate 80g SATA Drives
P4 3.0 HT 800fsb
1g DDR Corsair Ram

Will be sticking my Layla 24 in it as soon as I get it out of my old rig.

[crankz1]

Start > Run > (type in) compmgmt.msc > OK
You can also get to it via control panel > administrative tools > computer management.
There you will find Disk Management under Storage. Click on it and it will bring up your disk info.

[habibbijan]

You're making it too hard. Right click 'My Computer' --> Manage

Now select 'Disk Management.'

[crankz1]

Well .... you know Windows! There are many avenues to achieve the same outcome.

[xpine73]

ASUS P4P800-E has four SATA connectors,two for the on board Promise RAID controller and the other two for Intel ICH5R. Ensure that u have set up ur drivers to ICH5R connectors if u dont want Promise RAID.Or u have to press F6 and provide Promise driver while installing windows XP.
As to SATA,there is no master or slave driver.U may select the driver u wanna boot from BIOS.
Check the IDE setting in BIOS.there r several modes which might affect .
Disable RAID function in BIOS.
Since u can see both in hardware view,try to set up the "invisible" driver in disk management.

Good luck.