Help me please I cant seem to get my new Sata2 Drive installed.

[jamieuk23]

First off all can I just say that this is my first time trying to install a Sata drive as I have all ways used IDE Drives so I apoligise for my pure thickness !.

Any way just got my new overlclocked pc a few days a go and this morning I received my new 500GB Sata Hard drive which I would like to install.

Now when I first tried to attach the Sata drive to my PC is wouldnt seem to fit right with one of the cables but I noticed in my motherboard box a orange cable which fitted fine on the data port on the drive.. I then atached the other end to my motherboard.

Ok this is were I am totaly lost !! windows has loaded and I have gone in disk managment and I my new drive isnt showing up.

to give you a little more information I currently Have a 300GB IDE hard drive at the minute which is my main drive do I need to pull that out for my sata drive to work ??

can any one pleaseeeeeeee !!........ give me some sound advice to get this drive working so I can use it as my main drive and install Xp on it.

thanks for any help !

 

[rpstewart]

OK list of things to check, apologies if any of these sound condescending but I've no idea how much you know...

• The new drive has power from one source only (Molex or SATA power, NOT BOTH)
• The SATA ports are enabled in the motherboard BIOS
• The SATA ports are configured in non RAID (might be called ATA or IDE compatability) mode
• The appropriate drivers are loaded to allow Windows to access the SATA controller

What make & model are the drive and your motherboard?

 

[hp7909]

Formatted the drive? If BIOS picks up the drive then there's your problem. You can...

• Get/use software provided by the manufacturer - check their website;
• My Computer > right click select 'Manage' then 'Disk Management' > Right click on drive & partition/format/etc

 

[jamieuk23]

Hi I have now taken out my IDE hard drive that was installed as I would like to start a fresh as if I was wanting to install this drive for first time to install XP on it.

The hard drive I have is this one
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-084-SE

my motherboard is http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-152-AS

I am totaly lost here! have connected the drive to my PC and when i try to run XP it says there is no hard drive found.

So I have a brand new sata2 hard drive that hasnt been formated, so what do i do from here plz ?

 

[rpstewart]

OK, there are a couple of things that need to be done first:

1) Make sure the drive is connected to one of the Intel SATA ports - check the manual for locations

2) Make sure that the BIOS has the Intel RAID ports set to non RAID (might be labelled ATA or IDE Compatability mode) - again this is in the manual.

The reason for doing this is to ensure that you don't need to go to the hassle of adding extra drivers during the XP setup process - these are only required for RAID setups and since you've only got the one disk you can't do RAID.