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(Solved) Windows does not detect new hard drive

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bonobotheory

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EDIT: I can't delete this, so I'll just update: I'm not entirely sure what I did, but it's working now. Somewhere along the line, I must have set "Primary SATA 3" in BIOS to "None." Then I installed the new drivers, which I think would have fixed the problem had that still been set to "Auto."

There's just one minor issue: Disk Management lists the new drive as "Disk 0" and my boot drive as "Disk 1." I haven't found a way to change it, and I don't think it will affect anything, but it seems like an odd way to order the drives.

I'm trying to install a new 500gb SATA hard drive (WD5000KS) into my computer, which already has a pair of 320GB SATA hard drives (WD3200JD and WD3200KS). My Asus A8N-E (nForce 4 chipset) has four SATA connectors, and I've plugged the new drive into SATA3 (with my other drives on SATA1 and SATA2, obviously). I'm using XP with SP2, and I updated my nForce SATA drivers to 6.86, the latest I could find on nVidia's website.

Here's my problem: I can see all three drives in BIOS, but I can't see the third drive in Disk Management. WD's Data Lifeguard Tools doesn't acknowledge it either. I've tried disconnecting my second drive and hooking the new drive up to SATA2, but still get the same result: BIOS says it's there; Windows says it's not.

It gets weirder: Windows Setup sees the drive, and I was able to install XP on it, hoping that my current Windows install would see the drive once it was formatted. Nothing. I can boot from the drive, but I don't want it as my primary drive - I want it as my third drive, but Windows won't see it, even though it's formatted and has a ton of files on it.

This really has me confused, since installing my second drive was a snap - I plugged it in, booted up, and formatted it in Disk Management. I know there was previously a 137gb limit on hard drive size, but I'm obviously past that, since my 320gb drives work fine. Is there another limit I'm not aware of? I would appreciate any insight anyone can give.
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