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Does anyone know how you install SATA drivers on WHS? The motherboard says to hit F6 on startup and install off a floppy and when I used this MB for an XP/Vista computer it all worked fine, however, on WHS it boots straight up and hitting F6 does nothing.
Generally you plug in the SATA drive and then power up. In the WHS Console you should see the disk in the Server Storage tab as not part of the pool. Just click on it then click Add and it will be put in the pool.
Of course there may be something about your MoBo, so if you could tell us which one you have we can help better.
They should show up both in the consol & under Explorer (this is good to use if you need to copy files across to the pool drive before having the drive join the pool). Check your SATA & power connection to the drive & the motherboard.
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No motherboard has the message "hit F6 on startup....etc etc", this comes from the Windows installer, so are you doing a new install of WHS and it doesn't see the hard disk or is it an existing install you're trying to add a drive to?
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They should show up both in the consol & under Explorer (this is good to use if you need to copy files across to the pool drive before having the drive join the pool). Check your SATA & power connection to the drive & the motherboard.
if its a new HDD then it WON'T show up in Explorer as it is not initialised/partitioned/formatted.
im not sure if it will show up in the WHS console...i can't remember! i *think* it will.
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The drives are plugged in but dont show up anywhere.
drive or drives ????
Is WHS already installed?
Do you know how to get into the BIOS? it should show you the HDD in there. If it doesn't show in the BIOS then it won't show in Windows!
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The best thing I have found for things like this is an addin called "Advanced Admin Console." It is a tab in your WHS console that basically lets you control all the normal PC functions that the WHS console normally hides from you. I installed a SATA card in mine, and windows didn't have a driver for it, so via advanced admin console, I got into the WHS's control panel and just sorted it via "add hardware." Easy as.
I don't remember a link for it, but do a search at wegotserved and you will find it.
