HDD is registering as SCSI. What gives?

[ingeborgdot]

I am helping my brother in law out trying to do a non destructive repair using the installation disc. When we went through all the steps and got to the section that shows the hard drives it does not recognize the hard drive and won't let us do a repair. If we wanted to do a clean install it still would not recognize the hdd.
I decided to check bios and see what was recognized and in the hdd section it showed that the hdd was a SCSI. It is not a SCSI drive. We checked PC Wizard 2008 and it showed SCSI. All the places show that it is a SCSI. What is causing this? It is not a SCSI drive but a SATA drive. Can anyone tell me what has happened?

 

[cprince]

It's very possible that windows does not have the driver for your particular SATA controller. You have to download the driver, put it on a floppy disk, then press F6 to "Load third party driver..."

 

[mechBgon]

The hard drive is probably just ambitious :evil:

Ok but seriously, motherboards often refer to third-party disk controllers as SCSI, whether they really are or not. Nothing unusual about that, so just roll with it and use the method cprince outlined. Alternately, see if you can connect the drive to the motherboard's native ATA controller (see your motherboard manual to determine which ports are what).