SATA Problems

I have these installed on a working computer.

1 Sata hardisk 320GB and Dvd-writer connected to IDE1 (not IDE0)



My problem is here. i bought a new Sata hardisk to install it as a slave, 2nd Drive.



But some how... Bios doesnt see it not even windows and this hardisk is 100%





My second problem is on another computer.



I works normally but i need to format it has its full of spyware. it's working with a sata hardisk,



So when i try to boot windows xp setup.. everything works normal until it tells me hardisk not found. but if i restart the computer and take out windows xp it just loads into windows normally ! what do i need to do?

You need to download a program from whoever makes the drive you got to get it to work.

on both systems?

With the seconds one, I think that you might need to change something in the BIOS... I'm not sure what, I've never booted from a SATA.

sata doesnt have slaves or masters. try going to disk management to see if it shows there.

if your sata controller can be ran as a raid controller you may need to into the bios and set the sata controller to run in "ide mode"



Or make sure you don't have several sets of sata controllers (usually different colors on the mobo) b/c some of them are by default set up as a raid controller and the others are set into "ide mode" which acts as a single drive per a controller.



Then you have to go into disk utility and initialize the drive and format it. u can go there from this



start > right click my computer > manage > disk management > right click your unformatted drive and initalize it, then run through the wizard to format/partition it.

ok.. i try that. thanks



what about the problem of the booting

You probably need to get SATA drivers for your motherboard to install XP.