PC wont recognise new hard drive

A2Z

A2Z

A2Z

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Ive just got a samsung 160gb sata hard drive and cant seem to get it recognised by windows at all

i want to make it my main drive for XP

i tried booting from windows cd but it didnt list it in the available drives to install xp on
i then tried booting along with my current windows drive, and it freezes on startup. i did manage to boot once with it, but it didnt show up in disk management etc
i tried booting normallly, then plugging in the HD, that just freezes windows

any ideas?
 
simon n - in my bios it just lists 1st sata master / 2nd sata master / 3rd sata master / 4th sata master. under the 1st one it has my current windows HD, but on all the others it just says none - and theres no option to 'install' any sata HD :confused:

camalot - ive got 3 other sata HD's and they are all fine and have never needed to install any sata drivers, nor do i know where from..

mobo is asus a8n-sli btw
 
JonC said:
You probably need do something on the windows side.

Goto "Control Panel", "Administrative tools", "Computer Management".

Under "Storage", "Disk Management" you should be able to see your new drive.

You probably need to format and/or mark partition as active.

(I also have the Asus A8N-Sli Deiluxe, the SATA drivers are needed for the Silican Image SATA controller, but not the one that is associated with the NF4 chipset)
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i cant boot to windows with the HD plugged in - if i plug it in before i boot then it gets to a black screen and just hangs. if i plug in the HD when im already in windows it jus freezes windows.

You need to boot from cd with your motherboard disc in, It will ask if you want to make boot disc, you put a floppy in and make a boot disc. when you start to install windows you press f6 to install third party drivers, it will see your hard drive straight away
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i havnt had a floppy drive for years. and i dont see what drivers i need to install, every other sata HD has installed fine with no drivers
 
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