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Question posted by jm on October 20th, 2010

How To Get My Et1831 To See The Sata Drives

I lost the ability of my ET1831 to see the sata drives. It used to work. Do I need drivers or what? XP Disk management doesn't see them. They do show up in the startup bios.

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