harddrive setups
 

I had a maxtor 80 gb sata disk hooked up on my asus a8v with two partitions, and last weekend I hooked up my new rma-ed raptor 74 on the second sata channel, when the system boots I see both disks pass, but when in windows I see only the two partitions in my explorer.
when I go to system hardware, the raptor is there besides the 80 gb sata, and it seems to be functioning normally.
what is the problem?

it is not partitionned
start/control pannel/admin tools/computer management
somewhere in the left menu, one of the last items 'disk management'
right clicking on any of the disks at the bottom gives you the option to format/partition/... them :-)

man man man.
and then I own a 5000 euro setup.

ROFL :^D

Does that raptor 74gb give a noticeable speed difference vs that 80gig maxtor of yours? (Planning on buying one my self)

according to TerAngreal it makes a world of difference; He swapped his system drive with the older Raptor and his windows was flying compared to his normal WD.

close to SCSI speeds according to benchmarks :)

Ok thx.
Should the 36GB version be sufficient for windows and progs?
Got 160Gb for data.

36gb is MORE then enough for Win+APPS :)
can even fit your most played games on there with ease

Jea true, thx again. Will be getting one soon:o

but the 36 gb version is just a little bit slower.

I had a raptor and it is actually faster than anything before