Windows 2008R2 unable to locate SATA drives

[Maakus]

Tek-Tippers,

I have the strangest issue: Trying to install Windows W2K8R2 on a Thinkserver rd330. Bios, Windows is unable to see the drives,Easyupdate does not see the drives: LSI sees the drives and they can be initialized, configured in a RAID 0. However,Windows still refuses to see the drives. I have tried both AHCI and IDE configurations; disabled the onboard RAID..Nothing seems to work..I have tried a different had drive, the problem is the same...Anyone seen this before

 

[technome]

During the Windows install did you add the LSI Windows driver? Some LSI adapters work with native Windows drivers, others do not. See if there is a external driver



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