XP won't recognize my new SATA drive

[sMiLeYz]

Alright, I have an Abit IS7-E with a Maxtor 80 GB 7200 rpm IDE drive that is my primary boot drive.

I just bought a 120 gig Seagate SATA drive, plugged it in... my mobo recognizes it during Bootup but as soon as I hit
Windows, I can't see it.

I tried setting the SATA controller to auto, enhanced, and combined. It wouldn't work anyway.

I have the latest bios from Abit, and the latest Intel drivers.

My question is...

Is there anyway I can fix this, and make the drive work in SATA without reloading Windows?

Let me know

 

[Viper96720]

It's seen in the bios? If so go to drive management and intialize the drive. Control panel, administrative tools, computer management, expand storage, disk management, and
click action at the top then rescan disks.

 

[sMiLeYz]

Rescan doesnt work it only sees my maxtor 80 gig

The seagate does show up in bios

 

[bacillus]

have you formatted the hdd?
windows won't see the hdd & assign a drive letter unless it's partitioned & formatted!

 

[AndyK]

Actually that is incorrect, a new bare drive should show up in disk manager, you should then be able to initialise and format etc from within windowsXP (EDIT, I assume you are on XP?)

As to what the problem is, I assume that the SATA controller shows up in device manager and you have installed the drivers for it?

Andy

 

[boyRacer]

You need to load the SATA drivers.

 

[LED]

Originally posted by: boyRacer
You need to load the SATA drivers.

Before you load the OS if you expect it to read right away.

 

[dpm]

Originally posted by: bacillus
have you formatted the hdd? windows won't see the hdd & assign a drive letter unless it's partitioned & formatted!

Exactly. I just installed a non S-ata Maxtor on my Abit NF7, using the s-ata adaptor. Took me ages, as I was making it up as I went along. I didn't realise it needed two power connectors, and had no idea how to get windows to assign it a letter, and for some reason I couldn't get the maxblast bootup disk to work. Downloaded the windows version, partitioned and formatted, and now I'm good to go!

 

[dpm]

Originally posted by: bacillus
have you formatted the hdd? windows won't see the hdd & assign a drive letter unless it's partitioned & formatted!

Exactly. I just installed a non S-ata Maxtor on my Abit NF7, using the s-ata adaptor. Took me ages, as I was making it up as I went along. I didn't realise it needed two power connectors, and had no idea how to get windows to assign it a letter, and for some reason I couldn't get the maxblast bootup disk to work. Downloaded the windows version, partitioned and formatted, and now I'm good to go!