SATA drive installation

jamesennis · 03-05-2008, 11:26 PM

My brother has reformatted his PC and put windows XP back on. The drive that windows is on is IDE (C drive). Since reformatting the PC his second hard drive which is a SATA drive is not being recognised. It is not being recognised in the BIOS either. All the cables are correct.

What do I need to do to get windows to recognise the SATA drive? The SATA drive contains important information that cannot be lost so the fix cannot including reformatting the drive.

Motherboard = Chaintech 7NJS

SATA drive = Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 model ST380013A8

The PC does not have a floppy drive. Has a CD player and DVD re-writer.

donkey42 · 04-05-2008, 08:29 AM

i thought the problem was the fact that XP by default can only regognise upto 137Gb HDD but, because your SATA HDD is only 80Gb that is not the case you just need to tell XP you've added another HDD by: Control Panel > something like admin tools (if visible) > storage > right click on unallocated space, format & assign space to a drive letter

sorry i'm a little vague, but, i don't & haven't used XP for a while now

03-05-2008, 11:26 PM	#1 (permalink) Top
jamesennis Geek Trainee Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1 Status: Offline	SATA drive installation My brother has reformatted his PC and put windows XP back on. The drive that windows is on is IDE (C drive). Since reformatting the PC his second hard drive which is a SATA drive is not being recognised. It is not being recognised in the BIOS either. All the cables are correct. What do I need to do to get windows to recognise the SATA drive? The SATA drive contains important information that cannot be lost so the fix cannot including reformatting the drive. Motherboard = Chaintech 7NJS SATA drive = Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 model ST380013A8 The PC does not have a floppy drive. Has a CD player and DVD re-writer. Last edited by jamesennis; 03-05-2008 at 11:58 PM.

04-05-2008, 08:29 AM	#2 (permalink) Top
donkey42 Paranoid Geeky Geek Join Date: Mar 2006 Age: 34 Male Posts: 5,826 Times Helpful: 309 My Mood: Paranoid Status: Offline My Computer	i thought the problem was the fact that XP by default can only regognise upto 137Gb HDD but, because your SATA HDD is only 80Gb that is not the case you just need to tell XP you've added another HDD by: Control Panel > something like admin tools (if visible) > storage > right click on unallocated space, format & assign space to a drive letter sorry i'm a little vague, but, i don't & haven't used XP for a while now __________________ GRUB manual \| Google Linux \| Distrowatch \| Linux Chix \| Kubuntu \| My Mini City

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
SATA Hard Drive Installation Problem	ant2k50	Storage Devices	3	09-04-2008 06:55 PM
Sata PCI controller fail installation	Halford	General Hardware	0	29-03-2008 06:53 PM
SATA drivers required during installation of Vista?	geek geek geek	Laptops and PDA's	4	10-12-2007 08:01 AM
SATA drivers for XP installation	megamaced	Windows OS's	8	10-08-2007 01:06 AM
SATA Installation Problems (System Freezing Before Boot)	achamenes	Storage Devices	2	06-06-2006 01:15 PM

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)