Getting SATA Drive to work after Windows Reinstall

[EYEONE]

Hey,

I recently reinstalled Windows XP Pro on my system because it had simply gotten too slow. Now it won't recognize my SATA drive. I have 2 IDE drives (one with windows obviously). The third HD is a SATA drive that is not working correctly. The BIOS recognizes it just fine, as does the device manager. However in Disk Managment it comes up as "Missing: Dynamic. 298.09GB Offline" When I click Reactivate Volume I get "We recommend that you run chkdsk on each volume that becomes available for use after this operation. After this disk is online, if a volume remains unavailable, select the Reactivate Volume command for that volume" and nothing happens. It also doesn't show up under "My Computer". I've tried reinstalling the SATA drivers via the floppy drive, but the computer reports that it isn't a bootable disk. (is there a way to make a disk bootable that I'm forgetting?) I've done this process before when I installed it the first time but I can't remember. Online resources aren't helping me solve my specific issue. I have a SATA DVD-Burner that is working fine. Please, any suggestions?!?!

Specs:

NForce4 MSI Neo4
Athlon64 3000+
1gb Corsair XMS
Radeon X800XL
40gb IDE
80gb IDE
320GB SATA (not functioning)
DVD ROM
DVD Burner (SATA - working)

Thanks,

 

[mpilchfamily]

the system is telling you the problem. The drive has some issues. Either there is a good bit of curuption on the drive or the partition is hidden. In either case you'll want to boot into a partition manager and make sure the partition is avtive and run some scans to check the drives integrety.

 

[EYEONE]

I'm not so sure. Paragon Partition Manager shows the drive as Not Hidden. And the drive worked just fine before the reinstall. Just some games installed on it, nothing more. In PPM all I can look at all the files on the drive. But that's all. Do you have a recommended partition manager?