sata hdd recognized in control panel, but not bios

I got a 1tb sata drive. when I go into my BIOS, it's nowhere to be found, but when i boot up windows and go to my device manager, it's there. now it's not showing up in the list of drives available in 'my computer', nor does it show up in disk management.

One thing i do have to say is that I got the drive set up as 'raid' because when i choose sata, it'll say no sata ports are detected.

 

Does your board support SATA-II? If not, can you jumper the hard drive to run in SATA-I mode?

 

I'm not sure if it's sata ii. It's a newer drive I got about 3 months ago. It worked with my last system which was windows 7 beta. Now I have 7 rc1

 

New drives are all SATA-II, but many have jumpers on the back that will let them run in SATA-I mode for older mainboards. If you are using the same system, just a different windows, then your problem is probably driver related.

 

that's what i'm thinkin but there aren''t any other drivers for it, unless i try to update my bios.

 

Just to be clear, you made no changes to the hardware at all, just reinstalled windows?

 

U put it on a new IDE hdd that was set up the way my last one was when it was workin

 

It doesn't matter if I got it set up as raid does it?

 

It does matter, as the RAID bios may be blocking it if it has not been configured. It also matters because RAID often requires a different driver than the onboard drives, even if it is onboard (AKA FAKE) RAID.

 

sweet i got it working! i plugged my drive into a different sata port, and in the bios i set it to sata instead of raid and it worked although when i booted it up i had to format it, losing 15gigs worth of files.