Just can't get this SATA drive to work...

[JohnVM]

I bought a new WD 250GB SATA HDD and for the love of me, I cannot get it to work.

I have a P4P800 motherboard with onboard SATA support, and I plug the thing in and I just cannot get it to show up in Windows. It (sometimes) shows up properly in bios (depending on how I'm messing with it).

Some kid told me that SATA will not work when you have IDE drives plugged in also (which is a problem considering I have 3 other IDE hdd's). Is this true? If not, what do I have to do to make this thing work? Any ideas?

 

[boyRacer]

You may have to load the drivers for the SATA

 

[DaveSimmons]

In my P4C800-E the friendly manual mentions the SATA won't show up in W98/ME/2000? if the BIOS is set to be compatible with them and the IDE ports are in use. To use both you change the BIOS settings but then can only use both in XP and maybe 2000.

Read your friendly manual to see if this applies to you too.

 

[Geforcer]

Originally posted by: JohnVM
Some kid told me that SATA will not work when you have IDE drives plugged in also (which is a problem considering I have 3 other IDE hdd's). Is this true? If not, what do I have to do to make this thing work? Any ideas?

That's absolute BS, and you can tell him I said so Did you check in Disk Management to see if the drive's in there? Might just need to be partitioned before it'll show up in My Computer. I will tell you this though, if your installing your OS to the SATA drive, make sure to unplug all IDE drives while installing. Then after installation is complete, hook your IDE's back up.

 

[JohnVM]

interesting

I am using XP, I should look into that

haha, RTFM -- i should learn to do that more ;-)

 

[JohnVM]

nah the SATA is a secondary drive

I boot off an IDE

and yeah it didnt show up in disk maangement

 

[Geforcer]

Ok, then does your SATA controller show up in Device Manager? If not, make sure the SATA controller is enabled in the BIOS. Also, you might want to look into BIOS updates that could resolve an issue of this sort.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Like I said above, device support settings in the BIOS can determine whether the SATA is enabled. I just looked up my own P4C800-E (i875) manual. and:
(a) Enhanced mode supports PATA + SATA but only works for XP/2000
(b) Compatible mode supports only 2 PATA or 1 PATA plus 2 SATA.

If the BIOS is set to compatible (and 2 PATA) the SATA ports won't work.