New Harddrive Issues

[milligramsmile]

Hi, First off I will give some background into my situation. I used to use 2 ide Harddrives, 1 for my windows installation and the other for all my music, movie, and game files etc. My windows harddrive started to fail, so I ordered a new OEM Western Digital 80gb SATA II harddrive. I am aware that SATA II and SATA are backwards compatible so it is not a problem that my MOBO is 150 mb/s and the harddrive is 3.0G/s. I have fitted my harddrive successfully and got it connected to my MOBO, unfortunately I cannot get it to show up in my windows installation. I have downloaded the latest drivers and put them on a floppy for during the XP install, even after this the harddrive still wont be listed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My system is:
Athlon 64bit 3200+ socket 939
Abit AV8 Mobo
1gb Kingston DDR memory
320Gb IDE western digital drive
DvD drive
Floppy etc.

 

[btcomm1]

Install the jumper on the HD so that it is limited to 150 mb/s I had to do that for mine to show up.

 

[mobobuff]

Go into your BIOS configuration and see if the drive is listed there, if not you may need to change an IDE/SATA setting. Some settings disable SATA and only use IDE, but there's usually a setting that lets both operate at the same time, and then you'll have to set the boot priorities.

Also see if your hard drive requires the I/II jumper like btcomm1 suggested.

 

[milligramsmile]

Thanks a lot for your guys help, I will try these suggestions as soon as I get home and give you some feedback by tonight...