I'm not the greatest with computers so any help would be appreciated. 
I recently bought a new sata hard drive because my old IDE 80gb hard drive was getting full. I physically installed it with the old drive still connected and booted up. During POST the new hard drive is recognized in the IDE list so I thought all was well.
However, I pressed DEL to get into the BIOS and it took forever for the BIOS screen to come up. I finally got into the BIOS and the hard drive was recognized with the correct capacity.
I tried unplugging the older drive to see if this would have any effect, but the POST screen was still slow.
Then I decided to go ahead and try to see if I could install XP on the new drive and booted from the CD. The first few installation steps were slow just like the POST screen and then the installation stopped saying there was no storage device present. I exited and rebooted, this time booting from my old hard drive to see if Windows recognized it as another hard drive. It did not, however i noticed in the task bar, that Windows recognized the new hard drive as a USB mass storage device, similar to my ipod or my external hard drive.
I've searched google for a few hours but can't find any other cases similar to mine.
Do I need to install certain drivers? Or update my BIOS? My BIOS version was dated 3/21/2005.
My Motherboard - Chaintech VNF3-250 Zenith Value Edition
New Sata Hard Drive
Thanks
I recently bought a new sata hard drive because my old IDE 80gb hard drive was getting full. I physically installed it with the old drive still connected and booted up. During POST the new hard drive is recognized in the IDE list so I thought all was well.
However, I pressed DEL to get into the BIOS and it took forever for the BIOS screen to come up. I finally got into the BIOS and the hard drive was recognized with the correct capacity.
I tried unplugging the older drive to see if this would have any effect, but the POST screen was still slow.
Then I decided to go ahead and try to see if I could install XP on the new drive and booted from the CD. The first few installation steps were slow just like the POST screen and then the installation stopped saying there was no storage device present. I exited and rebooted, this time booting from my old hard drive to see if Windows recognized it as another hard drive. It did not, however i noticed in the task bar, that Windows recognized the new hard drive as a USB mass storage device, similar to my ipod or my external hard drive.
I've searched google for a few hours but can't find any other cases similar to mine.
Do I need to install certain drivers? Or update my BIOS? My BIOS version was dated 3/21/2005.
My Motherboard - Chaintech VNF3-250 Zenith Value Edition
New Sata Hard Drive
Thanks
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