SATA drives

[Amor]

I only have the wd raptor 36 gigabyte sata drive. I do not have any ide drives available on this machine. I frankly thought I would not need them.

I need to know if this is a common occurence or an isolated incident.

When I boot my computer I see a flash that shows it can see the wd hard drive. However, when trying to install windows xp it says I do not have a hard drive installed on my computer.

I have the small sata wire hooked up to the sata 1 hookup on the mobo. The other sata connection is the power cord.

I'm not quite sure how I'm supposed to proceed from here.

Any insight will be gratefully appreciated.

 

[Bar81]

You need the SATA driver disk for the chipset/mobo. What mobo are you using?

 

[KGB]

Amor,

Welcome to the Forums!

What MB are you using?
In the BIOS, make sure the SATA is selected as the fixed disk controller to boot from (after of course the CDROM for installation).
With your MB (if the SATA is on-board) there would be a CD with the drivers you need.
On a seperate PC you need to extract the driver files to a floppy disk.
During the initial stages of the XP install you will be prompted to press F6 if you have a non-IDE controller (a-la SATA, SCSI) and that's when you use the floppy disk created above.