PC can't see new SATA drive!

Lord_Gardener

Got round to replacing old IDE drive with new Hitachi Deskstar Sata 2 drive and have plugged in all the connections. However, PC can't see it! Have AsRock K7VT6 mobo which supports SATA. Have made diskette for sata drivers from asrock support cd and tried to do a Win XP installation. Pressed F6 at the appropriate place to install sata drivers and proceeds to continue to install XP. However it stops and says 'can't see any hard disks, press F3 to reboot'! Can't think what I'm doing wrong - anything obvious? Should bios pick up/see hard disk prior to installing sata drivers? Hope someone can help, nothing seems to go easy:mad::mad::mad:

Wherryman

SATA RAID Driver Installation Guide from the AsRoc web site:-

http://www.asrock.com/support/SATARAIDDriver.html

Lord_Gardener

Wherryman wrote: »

SATA RAID Driver Installation Guide from the AsRoc web site:-

http://www.asrock.com/support/SATARAIDDriver.html

Thanks, but have already done that via support cd and get the above problem. Things have got even worse now and the PC will not even boot up! It seems to be completly dead like the PSU has gone:mad:

dieselglider

I just happened to be lookingin some pc mag last night about adding a new hard drive, and it mentioned for Sata drives about enabling first in the bios. On the motherboard may be Sata sockets numbered 0,1,2,3 etc, which would correspond to enabling sata drives 1,2,3,4...
Good luck with the booting.

Conor_3

If you are using a pre SP1 XP installation CD, it won't see SATA or any HDD > 132GB.

Lord_Gardener

it's a new xp + sp3 slipstreamed cd!

Conor_3

OK, here's an alternative. On pretty much every Asrock motherboard, you can run the SATA channels in IDE emulation mode. That way, the OS sees it as an IDE drive. Performance isn't affected but it does allow you to install Windows without any grief. Once that's done and up and running, install the SATA controller drivers, shut down the computer, set the channel back to SATA mode and reboot. Done that before quite a lot as it saves fannying around inserting SATA controller driver discs during installation.

Lord_Gardener

Conor wrote: »

OK, here's an alternative. On pretty much every Asrock motherboard, you can run the SATA channels in IDE emulation mode. That way, the OS sees it as an IDE drive. Performance isn't affected but it does allow you to install Windows without any grief. Once that's done and up and running, install the SATA controller drivers, shut down the computer, set the channel back to SATA mode and reboot. Done that before quite a lot as it saves fannying around inserting SATA controller driver discs during installation.

Thanks, I'll give it a try once I've worked out why it isn't powering up - only the optical mouse is lit! I'll have to see if I've got an old PSU knocking around and see if that will get it going.

Lord_Gardener

Asrock have finally got back to me and say that I need to use a special HDD 'tool' from Hitachi to set it into SATA 1,5GB/s mode before it'll work!

haggisAThome

yes you need to format the drive first .

MBNewB

Does your Motherboard support SATA1 or SATA2? I had a problem where a new SATA drive could not be seen by a motherboard that supported SATA.

Motherboard was SATA1 drive was SATA2.

SATA2 drive had jumper settings on there to revert it back to SATA1 and the motherboard recognised it straight away. Then went on to format with the Win CD as normal with Win XP installation.

How old is your motherboard?