Help with SATA Hard Drive

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 08 Feb 2007, 23:58

How do you get a SATA Hard drive to work. Windows XP cannot find it and neither can Windows Vista Setup. I have power cord and connecter cord plugged in and have also tried the Wester Didgital cord thing that comes with it that is not a normal SATA Cord. Please Help. Thx

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 09 Feb 2007, 00:22

Set it as slave... Usually your CD/DVD-ROM is Master. I think so... >_< My HD is set as slave and it works.

Try plugging in all things
-the SATA cord
-the IDE cord
-the Power cord

MIght work, might not... I can't check with my HD cause there's so much wires... -_-

prince1142003 · Post by **prince1142003** » 09 Feb 2007, 01:29

Your BIOS must be configured to a RAID option (or if it supports it, a faux IDE). If you have one SATA hard drive, set your RAID option to RAID 0. Generally, you will need non-Windows drivers installed before Windows will detect the drive correctly.

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 09 Feb 2007, 04:00

Yup, just had to install the RAID drivers in Windows. (Go Vista!) Works great now...