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NightShadeKW

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I just built my new computer, and it won't recognize my hard drive. I have it hooked up, with both the power cable and the other cable hooked up. I go to raid configuration, though I don't know what that even means quite frankly, and it shows up on the left side, but not as a "logical drive". I just don't get it. It sees it, but won't let me use it.

Thoughts? I'm going berserk.
 
On some motherboards/chipsets SATA drives don't get recognized until you install the Windows XP drivers. If you have four SATA ports on the motherboard, then two of them are supported in the chipset, and two are supported from another add-on controller chip. You might try moving the drive cable to one of the other ports.

Boot off the Windows XP install CD and use the repair console to format and partition the drive.
 
I'm using an A8N32 by the way.

anyway, I don't know how to boot from the CD, it immediately goes to windows setup, and I either have to continue with the setup, repair, or quit, and if I try either of the first two it stops me and says "can't continue, no hard drive detected"

SATA drives don't use jumpers, right?

And I only saw one SATA port on the mobo.
 
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