250GB HDD not coming up in Windows

Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

Well, as the title says my 250GB Western Digital SATA drive isn't being detected by Windows, and even in the BIOS it won't detect a drive there. The strange thing is that when it does get to the OS, it's found as a removable drive (along with my 74GB Raptor that holds the OS and runs fine).

What should I do? Change the jumper setting on back? I've looked and it has a number of options back there, but since I bought them both OEM, there was no manual.

Problem #1: 250GB SATA HDD isn't detected by BIOS or shown in My Computer

Problem #2: Both SATA drives are being detected as removable in Windows, like a USB mouse or somecrap.

Thanks for the help in advance.

I'd suggest two things here: Get a BIOS update for your motherboard and see if it handles your SATA drive better and see (going into your CMOS settings) if it will detect your drive correctly.

Jam it back in, in the dark.