Need help formating SATA hardrive

[newb54]

I am running a 3200 A64 on the Aopen AK86-L mobo (rest of specs in sig). My hardrive is a 36gig raptor, when I go to run windows from the cd to format it says it can't find my hardrive. I press F6 during setup to load the SATA drivers but it still wont find my hardrive. Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[kylef]

Does your motherboard's SATA boot BIOS recognize the drive? You should see the drive's make/model displayed during some phase of the boot cycle if so.

 

[AristoV300]

In your BIOS can you see the HDD? Is it on a Native SATA controller, if not do you have the controller enabled in the BIOS?