I'm good to go now, please delete..........

[Grunt03]

Ok I am rebuilding my system once more, seem like I do it every year. Anyway,
I have the MSI K8T -NEO2 MB, a 3000+CPU and 2GB of DDR.
I have just bought a new 300GB/7200 RPM/ SATA DRIVE, i have hooked it up to my MB and turned on the power. Bootup is fine but If I have the SATA drive plugged in alone, the drive doesn't show up. If I use my 200GB IDE drive on IED1, and then use the SATA on SATA1. After startup I can see the drive in the registry.

Problem is I want to use the SATA drive as my primary drive and my IDE drives will be my storage drives on IDE channels.

What is going wrong?

grunt03 sends............

 

[montag451]

Disconnect ALL drives except the SATA and your CDdrive.

When you first install XP, - in the first few seconds - it will ask you to press F6 to install drivers for SCSI or RAID. You'll only have a short time to press F6 -
Then you will need your floppy with the SATA drivers for the mobo.

Let us know what happens

 

[Grunt03]

wouldn't this be installing the raid option?

I will try what you suggest, I have just completed formatting the drive useing the NTFS file structure, I was able to do this through the existing windows on my primary IDE hard drive.

 

[montag451]

This is the way to install a SATA device, afaik.

Also, In the BIOS, when you want to boot, using the SATA hdd, if the mobo hasn't got a specific option for SATA, then you may want to use the SCSI option instead..............
weird

 

[Grunt03]

Ok, I was so blind with anger, I could have thrown this complete system out the window. Finally after four hours I have figured this out and it is up and running.
It seems that the problem was within the Bios, I had to go into Integrated Peripherals / OnBoard PCI controller and enable the SATA device. This was very wierd because in all other locations such as the boot sector, my SATA drive was being shown. I was able to Install XP without any problems, I'm currently at 60% full load and all is well.

Thanks for the support and advice..........