I'm building a new system (all the final parts just came in the mail today)
I've got an Asus K8V delux Motherboard and I ordered a Maxtor 200GB SATA Hard Drive... I'm trying to install Windows XP on the hard drive (it's connected to the SATA 1 controller), but yet -- it doesn't detect the drive. Bios detects the drive when it boots up, but I can't get Windows or the Setup disk to see it. I temporarily dropped by 40gb IDE drive in there just to see if Windows would still boot up from that, and it did. However, Windows was still not detecting my SATA Drive. Do I have to have 2 seperate SATA drives in order to get this damn thing to work? I really don't feel like dropping another $120 or so on another drive when the single 200gb would be more than sufficient. If there is some way I can get the one drive to work on its own and get Windows installed on it, please tell me how...
Thanks.
I've got an Asus K8V delux Motherboard and I ordered a Maxtor 200GB SATA Hard Drive... I'm trying to install Windows XP on the hard drive (it's connected to the SATA 1 controller), but yet -- it doesn't detect the drive. Bios detects the drive when it boots up, but I can't get Windows or the Setup disk to see it. I temporarily dropped by 40gb IDE drive in there just to see if Windows would still boot up from that, and it did. However, Windows was still not detecting my SATA Drive. Do I have to have 2 seperate SATA drives in order to get this damn thing to work? I really don't feel like dropping another $120 or so on another drive when the single 200gb would be more than sufficient. If there is some way I can get the one drive to work on its own and get Windows installed on it, please tell me how...
Thanks.