PC not seing SATA Hard drive?

beast · 8 Dec 2006 at 16:48

I have just removed my old IDE drive and fitted a Maxtor Diamond 10 160GB. It's SATA-2 apparently? Anyway I located the primary SATA connection on my motherboard and used the SATA cable that came with the board to connect to the HDD. I then connected the SATA special plug off my PSU to the Drive also.

I then started windows up off the CD (a 2003 copy of XP) and it' s not seeing the hard drive. Why is this? is the HDD faulty or is it something to do with it being SATA?!

beast · 8 Dec 2006 at 18:41

Thanks chaps. My board is SATA-2 compatible. I'll burn the drivers from the disc to floppy if I can. I haven't got a floppy in my new rig, didn't think I needed one :rolleyes:

Hindsight's a MOFO, as they say

beast · 8 Dec 2006 at 23:01

Aaargh! Stuck my floppy drive onto the Mobo and it says not recognised. For God's sakes what can I do now :mad:

I hate PC's they suck.

beast · 9 Dec 2006 at 00:53

Okay getting there now

First problem - Floppy not enabled in BIOS

Second problem - Floppy still not working :rolleyes:

Borrowed my old man's floppy (obligatory joke here) and it's reading the disc but not writing.
Back to my old man's PC, swapping the drives again, the floppy isn't formatted :rolleyes:

Formatted disk, and it's wrote the driver to it. Woot! added this in windows setup by hitting F6, Now in the partition screen. CASHBACK